Go To Hell Encyclopaedia Britannica by Yuasa-Exide, released 31 July 2025
- The Picture You Painted
- Land Speed Recorder
- More Surreal
- Force of Commerce
- RIP?
- Wrong End
- Kicked
- Claustrophobic
- Downed Power Lines
- I Don't Like Outer Space
- Slacker Contunuum
After the Twin Pax-styled cassette release of Information & Culture and Naturally Reoccurring last Fall, we are pleased to once again be working with Yuasa-Exide, the project of Minneapolis-based musician and songwriter Douglas Busson and his rotating cast of contributors. Where that previous cassette served as an introductory snapshot of Busson’s compulsive DIY home recording and songwriting practice that he previously only made available digitally, Go To Hell Encyclopaedia Britannica is a proper new album that captures the current state of affairs for Busson and company. Well, that’s only partially true, as things tend to move quickly in the world of Yuasa-Exide. Since that last release on Round Bale Recordings, Busson has issued another full-length with Hyper at the Gates of Dawn, a pair of digital singles through his Ape Sanctuary Bandcamp page, and a split cassette with the group Boo/Hiss. In that timespan, Yuasa-Exide also became a proper live band and ventured out of the basement to perform their first run of live shows with more dates scheduled around the Twin Cities area in the months ahead.
What Go To Hell Encyclopaedia Britannica marks is the creative floodgates being opened wide for Busson, spurred on by new collaborators from across the Twin Cities DIY music scene. Go To Hell Encyclopaedia Britannica offers up a collection of acid-damaged pop nuggets and modern slacker punk anthems that highlight Busson’s sense of disillusionment and humor to memorable effect. Sure, there are plenty of precursors to Yuasa-Exide’s blasted 4-track songs that can be found with ease online, but it’s probably best that you go searching for them in old music zines, mailorder booklets, arthouse cinemas, and used record store bins and bookstores. It’s there in that unmediated quest for discovery that you’ll find the true spirit and steadfast creative spark behind Yuasa-Exide.
There are undoubtedly more songs and more releases to come from Yuasa-Exide, but Go To Hell Encyclopaedia Britannica captures this project at an exciting stage where the songs are becoming more refined and new possibilities are knocking at the door.
