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 Practice Changes. 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.
Fizzle Like a Flood recorded another album, tentatively titled Love, which has never been released.
In 2009 the song "Something More" was used in the feature-length movie, April Showers.
Although Kabourek recorded alone, he would often take to the stage in Omaha and Lincoln with a variety of musicians including: Travis Sing, Matt Bowen, James Carrig, Bob Carrig, Jesse Otto, and Anthony Knuppel of Shelter Belt.
Kabourek is currently the singer/drummer in the rock trio At Land, and has another solo project called The Dull Cares.

Band members

Albums

"Something More" April Showers, 2009

Compilations