Labels: self released
Review by: Ian Scanlon
Wow, arriving in a flurry of oddly processed and synthetic sounding bass and guitar, and bad drumming, this demo annouces itself to the world. RIOTMIND are here to make you say, WHY… Most particularly, why is a band trying to make themselves sound like an extra badly produced INXS demo with some very prominently mixed whiny vocals over the top. I saw a great number of bands who sounded like this when I used to play “new band nights” in the worst venues in London. These dudes may even have been one of them, for some reason (style of music, vibe of packaging) I get the impression that these chaps are as old as the hills… but they may in fact be just out of school (lyrics, inability to make any of this even SOUND decent)… either way it’s soundtracking minutes of my life I can never get back… the second track actually does a good trick by being worst than the first, by dint of even worse lyrics and actually worse instrumentation.. in fact, jesus wept, it actually gets worse as one gets deeper into it. Track 3 is a ballad adding, phaser, cheap string sounds, and badly recorded acoustic guitar (imagine one with no body played with a comb that was louder than the strings) to their pallete. Crikey blimey the other two songs are even worse two… one has a refrain of “she’s a sexual deviant”, edgy. File in the bin.