Mika Inherits the Ouevre
Interesting! A Pan_sonic-loving putz of my acquaintance was heard last weekend moping into his beer about the hefty import cost of this Vainio solo wax, which he'd expected to be DJ-ready and meaty, but in fact when he got it, he found constituted "nothing but random noises". Not wishing to concede even a raised eyebrow's-worth of interest in his general Front 242-descended dipshitisms, I continued to quaff my Kriek & keep my counsel. Atonal guitar records are nothing new, and often no joy either, but the scrapes and squalls escaping from this are as unschooled as any that burst beneath the merciless fists of Lydia; although there's some clipped and constructed rigidity in evidence, you'd not mistake it for my buddy's rocksteady ketamine-weekend soundtrack preferences. If Nine Inch Nails had been in thrall to the first Skullflower record, or the Dead C had recorded with Albini, perhaps; more Drumm than COH and substantially more Bruce Russell than Bruce Gilbert.
