Guessmen: 'Back from The Bins' (Colab) Billed as a kind of Tom Waits meets Aphex Twin style collision, this 13 track assortment of obstacle course instrumentation covers the gruff howlings of what sound like a very drunk, very deranged man - hence the Waits comparison- The backing contains every instrument imaginable including all manner of horns, keyboards and stringed instruments. The Aphex comparisons are due to the use of skewed electronics provided by programming and vintage synths.As much a muddle of emotions as a scramble for some sort of identity through song, these acid soaked ramblings, smudged blues, sloppy downtempo beats are incomparable to anything I've heard in a while. A unique crash course in a maddened jazz/rock/blues/electronica hybrid. LP and CD are yer' formats.
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What their label says...
THE NEW ALBUM FROM TYNESIDES CONTRA-POP WEIRDOS. BACK FROM THE BINS IS OVERFLOWING WITH OFF BEAT STOMPERS, EERIE LOVE SONGS AND WOOZY BALLADS, CRAMED WITH FOUND SOUNDS AND RECLAIMED ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN LOVINGLY RECYCLED AND REASSEMBLED IN THE GUESSMEN RESEARCH FACILITY. ENTUSIASTICALLY RECEIVED BY BBC 6 MUSIC. SHOULD APPEA L TO FANS OF TOM WAITS- APHEX TWIN IF TOM WAITS WAS MAKING RECORDS AS VIBRANT AND VITAL AS THIS AT THE MOMENT THEN WE WOULD BE PLAYING A GREAT DEAL MORE OF HIM ON THIS SHOW&#xu201D; -TOM ROBINSON, BBC 6 MUSIC SOMEHOW GUESSMEN MERGE APHEX MANGLED MECHANICS- MATHEW HERBRT- LIKE SAXOPHONE SWELLS AND BEEFHEART-Y WORD WIERDNESS INTO A STORM THAT GOES BUMP, BLIP AND BANG IN THE NIGHT -PLAN B MAGAZINE A WORTHWHILE RAMSHACKLE BLEND OF ELECTRO BLUES AND FUZZY JUNKYARD FUNK -DJ MAGAZINE
