![]() ![]() Keeper.īouncing Souls Ghosts On The Boardwalk. The tracks with MC Allonymous really shine. Part of Strut Records’ Inspiration Information Series, the jazz-afrobeat collaboration is a fertile one, but the front side of the record is by far the stronger. Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen Inspiration Information Vol. I can only imagine the market for something like this is dudes who dig the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies but didn’t think they were brutal enough. Swedish swing with distorted guitar that lacks surprises, but nonetheless it remains musically apt and larger than its overall gimmick. Keeper.ĭiablo Swing Orchestra Sing Along Songs For The Damned & Delirious. And no one’s going to sell a million copies of a record called Fuckfest, so points there too. I wouldn’t argue that point, but this is the tortured and ugly scream of early ‘90s youth. Remastered and now including some probably gorgeous liner notes that I didn’t get (the irritating lament of the collector), Fuckfest shows the band as the Melvins-y hardcore experimentalists they began as before Eugene S. Hydra Head’s reissue of the band’s 1990 debut. Uniqueness in this genre is a difficult thing, and they’ve done much to rise above the fuzzy crowd, but if Of Sound Mind is trailblazing, it needs more hooks to get others to follow. One of Tee Pee Records’ strongest younger bands (and by younger, I mean younger than Sleep), Of Sound Mind’s psychedelic stoner approach is a good way to start any morning, with the bang-for-your-buck 70-odd minute play time through endless vamping and leads. In reality, it’s the aftermath of a crapshoot.Īncestors Of Sound Mind. I’d think of it as a Consumer Guide-style approach, but that’s giving this way too much credit, as this is just the physical releases that I picked out of the thousands of CDs that wash over my desk. In this continuing series of columns with pithy headlines, one lackadaisical editor shuffles through the pile of CDs that sits in the northwest corner of his desk and writes brief and biased capsule reviews that, whether too far in advance of a street date or long after the album’s been out, rarely serve any purpose beyond the clearing of his own conscience.Īnd hey, maybe someone out there likes them. ![]()
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