Worst Case Scenario by dEUS

Worst Case Scenario, the 1994 debut from Antwerp's dEUS, sounds like a band that raided every bin in the record shop and refused to choose just one. It first appeared in Belgium on the small Bang! label, then Island took it to Britain and the rest of Europe with a reshuffled track list. Tom Barman sang and played guitar, Klaas Janzoons worked keyboards and violin, Stef Kamil Carlens played bass, Rudy Trouvé played guitar and designed the cover, and Jules De Borgher sat behind the drums.

"Suds & Soda" is the calling card, a scraping, lurching racket that caught on underground and never lost its grip on the faithful, while "W.C.S. (First Draft)" borrows its bass line from Frank Zappa's "Little Umbrellas". British critics liked it but couldn't file it, finally settling on art rock, a tag Barman still can't stand. It went gold at home and had sold 270,000 copies worldwide by April 2008.

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