Labels: No Rewind
Review by: Andy Malcolm
This CD has “PROMO NOT FOR SALE” scrawled over it in black marker. And by heck if you are going to do that, your CD better not suck or I will be extraordinarily angry at you. Cool? Cool. Thanks. Also, I pulled this CD out thinking, ah, 6 tracks nice a short and easy to review. The darn thing is 70 (Seventy) minutes long. Sweet mother of Donovan McNabb. It is well known that I have the attention span of a 4 year child who has been swigging coca cola all morning, whilst chewing cola bottles in between swigs and then shovelling spoonfuls of sugar down his throat to wash it all down. Heck.
Hex play stuff. And I do not begrudge them their absolute right to play stuff. In fact, one of the members from the band basically even says that this CD is several minutes worth of impenetrable nonsense and I am inclined to believe him. The final track alone (cleverly entitled “Unnamed”) is reponsible for a mere 40 of those.
Hex have two members and they play a form of structured instrumental music that occasionally delves into noise parts that I do not have the where-withall to tolerate or survive. I think the only person at Collective who could remotely cope with this is Alex Deller, who is well known for his sadistical tendencies. I, on the other hand, would rather cuddle up with the Promise Ring.
If your appreciation of music extends to the point where you’ll listen to any old tosh, you ought to check out Hex. Me? Oh doctor.