Splayed Flesh
2010
Biography
Wesleyan music graduate Charlie Looker, a deconstructionist on modern guitar, first accumulated experience in experimental outfits including ZS, Ocrilim alongside Mick Barr, and Dirty Projectors. He launched the solo project Extra Life in 2006, channeling his ZS background toward song-based material by issuing a three-song CD-R EP on FNR Show Releases. Local gigs around New York City soon followed, along with a short three-week tour through the East Coast and Southern United States that placed him onstage with Dan Deacon, the Dead Science, Parenthetical Girls, and Nat Baldwin. In early 2008 Looker recruited bassist Tony Gedrich of Archaeopteryx, drummer Ian Antonio from ZS, keyboard and tenor sax player Travis Laplante of Little Women, and violinist Caley Monahon-Ward connected to Nat Baldwin; the group then toured in February and March as Extra Life’s first full band. Debut album Secular Works arrived that May on Planaria Recordings and was succeeded by two Sockets releases: a solo acoustic guitar EP and a split 7" with Nat Baldwin.
Top Songs
Blackmail BluesSecular Works · 2008Secular Works8:54- The Body Is TrueSplayed Flesh · 2010Splayed Flesh11:15
- Head ShrinkerSplayed Flesh · 2010Splayed Flesh4:08
- I Don't See It That WaySecular Works · 2008Secular Works8:03
- Made FleshSplayed Flesh · 2010Splayed Flesh4:58
- See You At the ShowSecular Works · 2008Secular Works7:49
- The RefrainSecular Works · 2008Secular Works2:53
- Bled WhiteSecular Works · 2008Secular Works2:23
- This TimeSecular Works · 2008Secular Works10:02
- I'll BurnSecular Works · 2008Secular Works10:14
- Made Flesh-4Splayed Flesh · 2010Splayed Flesh8:35
- The Body Is True-3Splayed Flesh · 2010Splayed Flesh5:31
- Head Shrinker-2Splayed Flesh · 2010Splayed Flesh4:06
- Head Shrinker-1Splayed Flesh · 2010Splayed Flesh5:02