Ok, so I’m not sure what the deal is with the artwork for Lobotomy Records, but I do know that it cracks me the hell up! A couple days ago, I got a promo email for their Absence of Essence release – which by the way is bound to be smoking hot with remixes from Pig and Dan, Habersham, Jason Short, and Rob Dowell. …so anyway, there’s this brain wearing headphones and looking like it’s on the edge of committing suicide. That’s some off-the-wall funny sh#$.

I’m not sure what the suggestion is in the above image…I’m not even sure what the suggestion is in the label’s logo (below).

Here we just see the brain with headphones on, running away with its chicken legs…with two added details…first, we see a few lines that give the sense of rapid motion, and we see the two drops of sweat, a nice touch to let you know the brain’s working hard to get away I’ve thought about this a little, and I have a my own theory about what the image means. My guess is that Lobotomy is telling us their tunes are meant to mangle your brain – kinda the way that a Lobotomy would – so they see brains running away from the devastation in fear.

I tried to get some confirmation from my man Habersham about the meaning of the logo, but he wouldn’t spill the beans. All he said was, "yeah well, nothing says Lobotomy more than a brain on chicken legs….right?  …. ….that’s all the explanation I’ve got…"   …so I guess I’ll have to live with my theory being unconfirmed…which is probably all the better…I’ll just keep enjoying the killer Lobotomy tracks and keep being amused by the label’s imagery.

Eddie B