Soak the Saddle contains jumbled, blathering, and spastic noise rock coupled with vocals shifting in and out of coherence, rambling on about quirky dirty-sex abstractions and childish dirty-diaper themes. Arab on Radar bends the thumbs of music way back — nearly to the point of breaking — in the tradition of fellow noise rockers Melt Banana, and with nearly as much chaotic structure as the babbling Storm & Stress. This is experimental art punk with a large set of balls that have been kicked an uncountable number of times; it’s messy and discordant, but falls into discernible lines of rock just enough to make some overactive scissor-style punk rock. – Blake Butler
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