Sean
"Singers Ruin Perfectly Good
Bands" CD
Ladies Choice Records
Genres: grindcore, art grind,
experimental
December 2005 |
Interesting concept. I'm not so into grindcore, but
this duo aims to reinvent (or perhaps just reinterpret) the genre with
their own brand of aural assailing. On Singers Ruin Perfectly Good
Bands, Sean (originally named Tion) create eleven
short blasts of destructive noise using drums (courtesy of Mike
Peterson) and a keyboard (preset to piano mode) filtered through a
noise gate pedal and a Marshall guitar amp. I'm actually quite
impressed; as far as grindcore goes this is reasonably accessible -
perhaps it's the stray keyboard strokes or the lack of brutal vocal
regurgitations, but this stuff ain't too rough. Don't take that as a cue
to buy this for grandma, though, as I only really categorize this as
accessible to a small minority of the most open-minded music
listeners. I won't try to single out songs or excellent moments on
this disc, because it really sounds quite similar throughout. What you
get is what you get - eleven songs and just under sixteen minutes of
strangely unique "art grind." Whether that turns you on is hardly for
me to determine.
77%
Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 11 tracks, distributed by
the label, released 2005] |
