Labels: Fat Cat Records
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Hubba. I am delightfully unqualified to review this one, but what the hey! This is eight tracks and 35 minutes of rumbling, dis-jointed noisy rock music. A bass heavy South-London three piece who have some rather threatening, disconcerting vocals from the unlikely-ly monickered Gaverick de Vis, all suitably snarled and yelped and weirdo. Although it sounds a bit bizarre on “Sassy”, where he sounds more like a London market trader at the start “get your 50 pence bananas, ‘ere, 50 pence bananas!”.
Giddy Motors belt stuff out with a manic groove and it really doesn’t fit in with music I own. Songs like “Hit Cap” just spiral around chaotically but have superb parts that just would get your butt shakin’. I suppose I could just run off the list of references from the sheet that came with it but that would be cheating. Erm, except I’ve heard one song by the Pop Group and it’s sort of like that at times? That’s not going to be much help though! It has some off-kilter jazz influences and throw in a saxaphone, kind of utilising it like Sweep the Leg Johnny would, but overall that’s probably not a good indicator for their sound! There is also an Aerial M stytle instrumental on here called “Venus Medallist”, it sounds totally out of place as it is downright beautiful – a little at odds with the fuckest uppest nature of their other tracks. It’s all about the contrast. And after that is a bizarro track that starts with spoken vocals. “It just came to me recently, that I’m probably just a robot, and that the planet is just a sort of prison block” – it makes me think of Chris Morris doing something stupid on Bluejam. Then it descends into this utterly bassy groovefest.
Probably should add that Steve Albini had wto hands in the recording of this too.
Seeing as I’ve never really heard a record like this before I am quite surprised at exactly how much I enjoyed it. But this is great and it good music to listen to when you are not sure what other music to listen to.