Starving Weirdos - Self Hypnosis

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 05 Nov, 2009.

So we've got two double LP's by the ever-intriguing Starving Weirdos this week and I've been allocated Self-Hypnosis to review, although The Path of Lightning would've been preferable since the cover's got an amazing picture of a bullet-clad lady wielding a machine gun and riding a giant tarantula.. Those tend to be the reviews that write themselves. This one's only got some glasses on it but it does have a weird concept involving the exploration of the recording environment of some now-demolished raquetball courts and it does sound proper nuts.. The echoes that fly around as they free jam with their atonal electronic noise bursts, concrete-esque scrapes and mangled samples is a sound to behold, inspiring Phil to invite comparisons with Coil's 'How to Destroy Angels' 12" and me to wonder where the air raid sirens are 'cos we're definitely turning from good Silent Hill to bad Silent Hill. Good shit, but pretty uncompromising.

***The latest from NorCal’s finest, Path of Lightning is one of STARVING WEIRDOS most swell/swollen yet to date. Four flippin’ sides of

confuse-adelia for both the farm-fresh kid to the well-heeled cad. Way noisier than the releases on Root Strata, Path of Lighting is chock full of

mystery moves and dynamo hums, from the tripped-out textural flips on “Into the Flatlands” flickering in and out of foci to the

almost-an-environmental-statement of “N.Y. Blues” with talk show jibber jabbing into the corrosive static as the grooves run out. The two dudes in

Starving Weirdos are joined by yet another dude for two tracks and it’s tough to know exactly what he’s adding (besides another layer of ecstasy

gush). These two sides sound like the fine line that separates No Neck Blues Band from Sunburned Hand of the Man. The final track could/should

have been in the movie Rosemary’s Baby, right around the time Mia Farrow is screaming “What have you done to his eyes!” Deluxe gatefold

jackets, limited to 500 copies.

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