| Flat Tracker | ||||
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| Released | 1996 | |||
| Genre | Hardcore punk, hard rock | |||
| Length | 17:48 | |||
| Label | Scooch Pooch [1] | |||
| Producer | Conrad Uno [2] | |||
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| Tucson Weekly | [4] |
Flat Tracker is the second studio album by the Seattle hardcore punk band Zeke. [5] [6] It was released on Scooch Pooch Records in 1996 and re-released on Relapse Records in 2008.
Tucson Weekly wrote that "the heavy-duty scorch of Zeke is as dangerous and thrilling a spectacle as when Evel Knievel jumped his super-charged motorcycle over a dozen school buses at the Houston Astrodome back in the '70s." [4] SF Weekly described the album as "packed with scorching 90-second odes to sex, drugs and fast cars/motorcycles." [7]
AllMusic called it "a relentless ride of rock & roll abandon threaded through with punk rock speed and attitude ... perhaps Zeke's finest album." [3]
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