The Rebel - The Incredible Hulk

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5...according to our Brian on Fri 19 Feb, 2010.

We've been long time fans of The Rebel here at t' towers. I'm glad I'm sat down here typing about their new bizzar-a-thon on Junior Aspirin as I've just been sent on a wild goose chase for something and I'm near mental collapse. Firstly, nice to see the juxtaposition of a can of spesh & a big fat preening swastika on the darkly subversive sleeve art. Inside the music is designed to get under your skin, comin atcha initially like a lo-fi bontempi slasher soundtrack with these eerie noises (like a disembodied drill & warped audience applause) to add to the menacing aura. Then there's this possessed thing that sounds like a sludgy no-wave New Zealand record from the early 90s: muffled, discordant & weird, it drifts in & out of an aural fuggy stew of tranquilized muttering and bobbing spiralling bass patterns before channeling itself into this psychedelic, robotic post-punk stumbler that would sound perfectly at home on a Messthetics compilation! Now I've been told to go check side 2 out because there's a rather naughty mash up of a popular early 80s goth classic which I'm not revealing. It's like a straight bootleg at till half way through before someone decides to start gently hacking & looping the song to the point where you think you're going insane. It's one of my fave tunes from the era but I don't think I'm EVER going to be able to listen to it ever again. The last track i'll comment on from this heady sonic concoction is the fuzz-saw/psychedelic/folk-rock poetry of 'Riding In the Sun' which is a truly bizarre & wonderful song. Early Floyd, Pete Um & Wevie Stonder all rolled into one twatted bundle of transient, shifting experiMENTALism. What a nutty trip from this former Country Teaser!

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Tracklisting....

Side A;
Ambient Pasteman
Cherish
Aiming Low, Getting High
Moths 09

Side B;
Christmas Every Day
On My Own
The Forest
Riding In The Sun
The Song At The End Of The Album

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