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from a review by user Obakefilter @ Rateyourmusic:

"Legendary highschool girl trio. They can’t play any instrumental and music. Real stupid japanese teenage DADA or GUTAI performance.

Superball, first known as “Miss Osaka" and then “Death Fuck", formed sometime in the early nineties (when exactly I couldn’t discover) and were a four piece, consisting of three teenage girls and a toy monkey. They were the undisputed queens of a little-known scene called “aho-core", or translated to English, “idiot-core".

Superball have been described by the Forced Exposure catalogue as “the avant-Shaggs". I can think of no better description for them. They cannot sing, they cannot play, they cannot write proper music. But instead of ignoring that and attempting to transcend these problems and create beautiful songs as the Shaggs did, Superball take their lack of talents and turn them on their head so they become advantages - their failures were the very soul, the very root of their being, the cheesy all-American wholesomeness being replaced in this instance with an oblique, knowing, stubborn and strangely blank style.

Their concerts were legendary stuff. The frontgirl held a guitar and would occasionally strum it when she felt like it. She interspersed this with a recitation of the Japanese alphabet - something that sounds like “grio" appears to have been her favourite letter. Meanwhile, her two friends would either play piercing notes on a penny whistle, or blow bubbles, or skip rope. Drums would be supplied by the toy monkey, who was presumably one of those really old battery powered things from the sixties that clashed two little cymbals over and over again. Excellently, every so often frontgirl would shout “DRUM SOLO!" and everyone would stop what they were doing, except for the monkey, who carried on doing his stuff. As you can see, they were really less a band, more a Dadaist performance art group.

Eventually though, at some point in their brief career - research shows that it was probably 1993 - the group felt that it was time to document their antics. And so they recorded the masterpiece I own, the eponymous cassette EP. The question is, though, stripped of the visual aspect, can this audio tape “work"? Well, let me guide you through the five tracks here, and then give you my opinion on it."

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Self released in 1993.