Labels: Crucial Blast
Review by: Kunal Nandi
You’d have to be pretty maverick to try and out-do Agoraphobic Nosebleed one second, and then churn out a carbon-copy of New Order the next (I shit you not on this score, Hooky basslines and all!), but this pointlessly unique five-tracker is prime-grade mash-up material. An agreeably barmy, if impenetrable, shitstorm of programmed drum-machine fractal patterns, three blokes yelling at once, chugging guitars, synthesiser, vocoders, metal, pop, grind, hip-hop, industrial… absolutely anything and everything goes here. Although this may sometimes feel like they’ve just pressed the DEMO button on their Fuck-O-Matic 8000, there are plenty of catchy bits in amongst the morass of musical invention, and I doubt you’ve heard anything like it. Not today at least. Chalk up yet another corker for Crucial Blast, as well as a totally hideous picture disc for Lovepump United (http://www.lovepumpunited.com). Mint!