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Recommended by us on 18th September 2009
...according to our Brian on Thu 17 Sep, 2009.
Part Chimp I always loved, back in the days when I listened to breakcore & fell over in a state every weekend. Well I don't listen to Shitmat any more but I'm still prone to falling over on occasion & still revel in the fuzzy revved up mess that these guys force out of their speaker stacks. 3rd album in and it's business as usual. 'Thriller' opens with this stunning track that weighs in somewhere between Kyuss & Th' Faith Healers, all overloaded superfuzz groove with some blissed mantra style vocals whispering in the mix. I know people love The Heads but I'm convinced these guys could wipe the floor with them! Does this music have an associated dance? The Stoner Lurch i'd call it. The album continues in the huge, shaggy dirt rock style that their previous incarnation Ligament only ever hinted at. If anything they've got heavier & more psychedelic with hearty nods to the sludge and grind typical of Melvins & Gore et al in there. But at the end of it all they still sound like a fabulous hard rockin' party band that come from nowhere more salubrious than a beaten-up boozer in Camberwell. That cheeky minx Tracy Bellaries from Ikara Colt is now playing bass for them apparently, although I know not whether she is responsible for the amped-up low end treacle currently pouring into my ears. Absolutely fantastic stuff from the most reliable band on the planet right now. CD only! The U.K'.s favourite extreme-noise sludge-rockers return with Thriller, their third studio album.
Fans of everyone from Black Sabbath and MC5 to TAD, Sonic Youth, The Melvins and Harvey Milk stand to be impressed by Thriller's suffocating but liberating vibe that sounds brain-shakingly loud regardless where the volume dial is turned to on your stereo.
Signed to Mogwai's Rock Action label, the Camberwell crew have recruited bassist Tracy Bellaries (formerly of Ikara Colt, Mystery Meat & Soulbossa) to add even more texture to their dense, pervading noise that doesn't betray their
roots as a traditional rock band.
With its screaming textures and the band's delicate twist on pop sensibilities, Thriller looks to set the standard for uncompromising, unwielding creativity this year, drawing on their rich range of styles, influences and their history of resolutely doing their own thing.
TRACKLISTING: 1. Trad 2. fffff 3. Dirty Sun 4. Sweet T 5. Tomorrow Midnite 6. Today 2 7. Today 3 8. Supermoody 9. Starpiss
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