The Truth About Frank - A Briefcase Full of Suspicion

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5...according to our Brian on Thu 08 Jan, 2009.

The Truth About Frank is a chap called Alan & his mysterious mate who i'm unacquainted with. They've a really interesting self released CDr called 'A Briefcase Full of Suspicion' that we've been caning. Beginning with atmospheric found sound collage and distorted vocal snippets on 'Muri desu Yo Sonzai', an insectoid pulse begins to wrap itself around the melee, disappearing down a Burroughs-esque tunnel of disorientation. Then yr landed squarely in the land of monged-out backward-masked electronic madness these boys enjoy. Influenced by the likes of Chrome & sounding like a modern kin of Tackhead, 'Each Time' is like psychedelic industrial electronica, trippy & sinister, embracing atonal noise whilst keeping a firm leash on the chaos. I love the manipulated vocal samples, they add a real menace to proceedings. 'You've Grown Insanity Hooks' is proper monged glitchy electronica, both strangely rhythmical & utterly absorbing in it's playful chaos. It transforms itself into a V/VM style distorta-thon half way through, digging up Bing Crosby's corpse and pissing liberally in his face. 'First Ask Charming Rat' is more mental hypnotic electroid headmusic. I'd not want to take mushrooms listening to this, i'd end up crawling up the opening of a tap to escape my head. Sober, however, it's pretty ace, well twatted off it's box like Drexciya stuck in a loop with a load of digital ghouls. 'Glass Hour Siren' engulfs you in some quality drifting atmospherics before spectre like voices mutter unintelligible things at you through a drainpipe, 'Asimienta' is another fantastic slice of reversed hyper techno, really hypnotic & fascinating. Finally 'Feeding The Demons' is aquatic dark ambience with a whole plethora of cyber insects massaging yr lugs. A really diverse and fascinating CD from some real enigmatic Yorkshire based folk.

the new 7 TRACK EP BY 'THE TRUTH ABOUT FRANK'
is now available.

A Briefcase Full Of Suspicion.

Featured tracks are as follows:

1-Muri Desu Yo Sonzai.
2-Each Time.
3-You've Grown Insanity Hooks (Root Canal).
4-First Ask Charming Rat.
5-Glass Hour Siren.
6-Asimienta.
7-Feeding The Demons.

".....an offbeat soundtrack to some dystopian nightmare." www.bluesbunny.com

"Anarchic diode Dadaists who refuse to kowtow to the script.
Who instead rewire and service their own sonic landscape.....
Abstractly awkward and awesome stuff." www.losingtoday.com

"There's subtlety, aggression, nuance and playfulness here
but most of all there's bags of imagination and invention."
www.sandmanmagazine.co.uk

"...easy and complicated all at once...you know you need it"
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'A Briefcase Full Of Suspicion'
"Is it dance music.? Minimal techno?
Fans of bleeps, bloops and samples
- or indeed experimental electronica
- please step this way."
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"– creatively subtle, imagination is their chosen weapon."
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