After supposedly axing Pink and Brown in order to focus on their duties in the Coachwhips and Young People, John Dwyer (Pink) and Jeff Rosenberg (Brown) have put the whole shebang to bed quietly with Shame Fantasy II. It's a complete retrospective of their work, including their long-out-of-print full-length Final Foods as well as songs from their split 12" with Death Drug.

Though Pink and Brown often came across like a gaggle of schoolchildren chucking excrement at corner-dwelling street performers, there's always been something just a tad romantic about the duo's flailing cacophony. "Messy Bessy, Get Undressy" presents the sweet sound of love as imagined by two delirious circus monkeys, "Sherriff Jessum" is a lover's quarrel reconciled with pistols at thirty paces, and "Enter Office, Exit Wound" is a make-out session at the corporate water-cooler gone horribly awry. Granted, love, loving and lovely are adjectives rarely associated with this lot, but as you listen to them jackhammer their way through "Christ Balls", you'll realize that in terms of spasmodic sweetness, dark-hearted romantics Pink and Brown were second to none.