cds acquisitions of late:
arab on radar - 'queen hygiene ii' / 'rough day at the orifice'
arab on radar - 'the stolen singles'
easily what could be described as my new favourite band, i came across arab on radar whilst surfing last fm.com after wondering whatever became of deity guns. o the circuitous routes to musical pleasure... anyhoo, arab on radar turn out to be a huge find. equally aggressive, spastic, repetitive, hilarious and frenziedly driven, i cannot recommend these highly enough. hyperbole be damned!
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liars - 'they threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top'
their first album, this is already pointing in the direction of their later gloomy, disjointed experimentation and is worth the purchase price alone for what i can only describe as "that kind of purring sound" on track 'nothing is ever lost or can be lost my science friend', and of course the last track 'this dust makes that mud', clocking in at a mighty 30:07, the final 20 some minutes of which is an almost seamless loop.
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services - 'your desire is my business'
these people used to be the great flux information sciences, but split to make something "poppy - because it's hard to do". if this is pop then it's the most obsessive, mentally retarded pop i've ever heard, and all the better for it. get on your dancin' shoes and prepare to do yourself an injury.
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shit and shine - 'cherry'
shit and shine - 'küss mich, meine liebe'
a motley crew from various bands (including the now defunct / re branded todd) and often involving driving, distorted percussion; nevertheless the cornerstone of shit and shine is experimentation. there are full-on noise tracks, short tracks, ridiculously long tracks, little girls singing. two collections of beautiful, utterly disconcerting grimy chaos, some of which you can even tap your foot to:
"the band has been known to employ up to 16 separate drummers and 12 feet of vertical bass amplification, so they are no strangers to erecting long standing brown waves of sound known to induce wild ass humpery and free standing grope-a-thons. you, dear listener, are powerless in this onslaught of bass boomed rock totality."
you have been warned.
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