"4K transmutates the recorded works of The Stuffings into two entirely new, Nurse w/ Wound like sound sculptures. Incl. archive recordings of Stuffings covers by Salinger Lewis w/ Turkish Delight as backing band."
- Bluesanct catalog no.3, summer 1997

"Art terrorist FORK wields the mighty powers of transmutation to create two ten-minute mastermixes of Stuffings favorites... and S/Lewis."
- Bluesanct catalog no.2, Dec 1995

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"An irritating high pitch feedback whine begins the tape, but it eventually gives way to a cracked buncha guitar based loonacy that’s as demented and creepy as it is imaginative and enchanting. Enjoying this tape (as I do) is like enjoying the way a skunk smells. Well, they do kind of smell good in a way, don’t they?"
- C Reider, AUTOreverse magazine

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To promote the release of this cassette, I broke into the house of a prominent local reviewer for Instant Magazine and left a copy of the tape on his kitchen table, along with the following note:

"Hello Mr. the Solo Drone,

I like the name of your column, I myself have been known to drone on and on for hours...

I read the magazine called Instant and saw the review of the Stuffings and felt compelled to hand deliver this much better cassette to your door, as I must inform you of something...

The Stuffings are bastards and they are far inferior to the power of FORK! I had tried, at one point, to join their army (you were right in your theory) and they rejected me, so I have molested their music in a way that not only adds to the half-assed attempts they have so faultingly tried to assert on the listener, but brings a whole new realm of tonal duality to it.

FORK is not part of some underground movement... We ARE the movement! An anonymous collective of art-terrorists working for the whole to annihilate the likes of the Stuffings, who are too coy for their own good! And we will be back, to quote the noble Obi-Wan, in greater numbers...

Be forewarned, or fall in the deluge!

In all sincerity,
FORK"


...the resulting review is the stuff of Day2 legend:

"Why I'm reviewing this, I have no clue. Having already done The Stuffings twice before, I find it increasingly more alarming that I'm compelled to contemplate them at all. They are, after all, a rag-tag group of semi-volunteering art-zombies who, I firmly believe, are hard-focused on deconstructing any progress the music industry has made since Cheap Trick's cover of "Don't be Cruel" riveted music affectionados to their short-wave radio systems during the waning years of the Cold War. This, however, is getting a bit scary. Having Fork deliver their opus to my doorstep worries me. And why, might you ask? Well, might it be their devious plot to mind-meld me into changing this columns' focus entirely on The Stuffings and their as-of-yet undisclosed underground plans to over all the Captain and Tenille b-sides, releasing them only to select Allston-area breakfast spots and 24 hr. laundromats perhaps? Ahhh, but that would be too easy, wouldn't it? Perhaps they're in search of a media-puppet; an unassuming leader who's sole and unconscious duty remains a mystery to all those who do't heed their warning. Perhaps no one is actually reading this right now. Perhaps I am going crazy. Who is this Fork and what is their association with The Stuffings secret army? These questions remain unanswered. They tell me this, however "Fork is not part of some underground movement, we ARE the movement! An anonymous collective of art-terrorists working for the whole to annihilate the likes of the Stuffings, who are too coy for their own good!" ...Oh yeah, the music is....well, it's very....hmmm....I definitely hear some....at times, it's....well, that about says it I guess. Wait a second, I hear footsteps..."
- The Solo Drone / Instant Magazine 1995

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