June 11, 2009
I’m a bit baffled, as the case often is, by this new Ganglians album. From what I’ve heard in the past, this band was dropping literally scuzz-soaked two or three minute diddies that usually involved droning noise and or screaming. I loved this.
On Monster Head Room the band’s jettisoned a good bit of the scuzz, replacing it with a sense of harmony more akin to Beach Boys than Eat Skull. And again, I love it, maybe even more so. It’s perfect summer music for those days when you’ve spread your toast with pot butter and the worlds just a little yellow around the edges.
Ganglians - Lost Words
May 29, 2009
It’s always a bit frightening to hear that a new record by a band has been given a “spit polish” or a “clean-up” or a “sound enema”. Makes me think that they’ve hired a big name producer and all of sudden my scuzzy garage rock has been turned in to U2 for the noise-set. Thus, I chalk my love of the new Eat Skull album (referred to by many as a “cleaned up” album) to two things:
1) I’ve never heard Eat Skull before, for a myriad of boneheaded reasons, and thus I cannot compare them to anything but this one point of musical context. Fresh-faced and eager, yup, that’s me.
2) From what I’ve heard ’round the interwebs, these gents from P-Town, Oregon needed a bit of a scuzz reduction. A lot of folk are claiming that with a cleaned up, slightly more melodic sound, that these fair fellows have really out done themselves.
I tend to agree. But now here’s my quandry: if I dip back in to the discography am I going to be disappointed by their squelchy noise blasts, now that I’m attuned to their less squelchy noise blasts? Please, somebody help me.
Eat Skull - Heaven’s Stranger
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