Everything you knew of No Doctors has been flipped upside down again- these punks have twisted their ways through America’s sinews for years now, flogging at the strangest horses along the way.  It would seem all mystic smoke and mirrors by now if we didn’t have documents of their sick growth; like mushrooms on a cow turd.  They clearly feed off the dark and the damp and the subterranean; but the results cannot be measured with any conventional devices; nor reproduced even under the strictest of control environments.  ORIGIN & TECTONICS is the Docs’ third effort (if you only count by MIGHTY LEAPS OF QUANTA) and its unabated brilliance is sure to serenely gestate through your speakers or ear-buds.  It is the NE PLUS ULTRA of UNABASHED AMERICANISM. The No Docs have flensed their way through a sprawling unsettling survey of the American interior unthwarted by any known species of sound, art or symbol.  They’ve picked up every known idiom like twigs and gravel in the parking lot.  Their sound is the cultivation of the seed - smoke and fire - a voyage on the high seas- fistic empathy- triumph over the tyranny of sight- underage hijinks- paranormal futures- a magic animal- and the vigilant butt joke.  All this and LOVE (romance will always out-sexy the robot) and old-fashioned b.s. like DEDICATION and FRIENDSHIP.  The record spins around the table and the egg is reborn.  NOW PULL OUT THE FIRST LP AND GET TO WORK ON THE PUZZLE.

In the olden times it was strictly ARCTIC GIBBERISH- as a rule- and whenever a hook slipped through they’d swear it a mistake.  By the time the first album got recorded (they must’ve been “busy”) it was like a pudding that had been left out- you could see SOMETHING forming but you didn’t wanna dare guess WHAT.  They weren’t ashamed to rock though- THE QUARRY and JAILBREAK are five-point plans for cheap kicks- nor were they afraid to veer- LIBERTY is a hauntingly deadpan mantra perversely marrying the stylistic aura of WAS (NOT WAS) to ARTO LINDSAY.

HUNTING SEASON puts a bomb on the map- crosshairs on infinity- you can actually hear them battling black stallions of energy with wood and metal and archaic breath technique.  The ocean of jazz and noise and punk washes away everything but little diamond-like songs left over in the eddies and vortices.  The entire album is BLOODTHIRSTY.  The lyrics preach on politics, sex and death over a hoary pagan frenzy- a brutal callithump- an economy knowing no value but VIOLENT KATHARSIS.  The bass swells and the fuzz bristles and the saxophone squeals a bleeding banshee.  POP SONGS about the midnight inferno.

With ERP SAINTS- NO DOCTORS are schussing down the volcano- wambling through the woods.  In other words it’s a TOTAL SELF-RENEWAL- and a healthy F.U. to the tiny galaxy clique- as they compress their erotic architecture into ANYTHING THEY PLEASE. Expansion; emotion; and soon enough comes the memory of ancient sleep at its oceanic pace- the tones and letters and numbers and colors following the wave in its infinite variance.  They compress their diet into LEAN and MEAN and PRETTY.  The SOUND is a product of the NEIGHBORHOOD.

Every show is a REBIRTH- every single REWRITES HISTORY- all matter is malleable in their dexterous paws- all targets FIT- all languages spoken.  Their alien mentor, the bumbling jujubee CLOPEZ, swaps ghost stories from behind a sparkly cloak- their roots are California by way of Chicago by way of Minnesota etc.- and the guitar solos will KILL YOUR NUTS.  Did I mention they started in High School rocking in Mom’s basement?  NO DOCTORS HAS YET TO BEGIN.  Listen to ORIGIN & TECTONICS every day and believe in your BREATH, believe in your SLEEP, believe in your FOOD and believe in your LOVE.  BELIEVE IN YOUR MUSIC.

-- Ken Terry, Jr., esp.
   USA

Discography:

NO DOCTORS LP/CD                2002  Freedom From
HUNTING SEASON LP/CD        2003  Cock of the Rock / GoJohhnyGo
FF YOU CS                                   2004  Freedom From
ERP SAINTS CD-EP                   2004  No Sides
T-BONE PTS 1 & 2 7"                 2005  Yik Yak
ORIGIN & TECTONICS LP/CD   2007  nodoctors.com

mp3 files from previous releases available here and at our MySpace page.  Selected press archived here.  Comprehensive tour history is here.

No Doctors is always pleased to receive a word from anyone wishing to reconcile our collective voyage; please direct all inquiries to