Fizzle Like a Flood

Who is Fizzle Like a Flood?

Fizzle Like a Flood was the moniker Doug Kabourek chose for his one-man recording project. Kabourek drummed in an early version of what would eventually become The Faint, and for Iowa City's Matchbook Shannon. His first solo-artist-under-a-band-name project was The Laces, which released two albums.

Starting yet another DIY project, Kabourek took the name Fizzle Like a Flood from a Tripmaster Monkey song on the album The Goodbye Race. In 2000 Fizzle Like a Flood released Golden Sand and the Grandstand, a concept album about the Ak-Sar-Ben Race track in Omaha, NE. The album was recorded at home on a computer, and made use of many overdubs for a lush sound.

Two years later, Golden Sand . . . was followed up with the far more stripped-down Flash Paper Queen. Much of the album was recorded live onto a cassette boom box, then transferred to computer. Although billed as an album of supposed demos, it was a completed work.

The self-titled EP which appeared in 2004 was a return to the more lush production of the first album. It was recorded in Kabourek's spare bedroom.

In 2005, Ernest Jenning offered a mastered reissue of Golden Sand and the Grandstand with all-new artwork by Frank Holmes.