Groundbreaking, and at times ear-splitting noise experimentation by the Dublin band formerly known as Girl Band with a new album with a deeply ironic title and work that truly challenges the senses via a post-punk, distorted guitar and electronic platform. Screams, growls, alarms, bangs, crashes and lurches abound from the first track The Gum. Eight Fivers is a humorous song about buying “shit clothes” from department stores in a delivery that is unmistakably influenced by Mark E Smith. Backwash, and Post Ryan are perhaps the albums most accessible tracks, the first two a catchy, frantic beats and also in Smith mode , but even the latter, a former Song of the Day, begins with an arresting, solid, continuous, arresting buzz, not unlike that when a guitar is unplugged from an amp without the volume reduced. Bin Liner Fashion begins like those two, but then morphs into screaming, visceral vocals and a storm of frenzied noise. The Weirds contains all kinds of low industrial noise, but also begins with a high pitched sound that evokes a sense of tinnitus. The band are full of sonic experimentation, mysteriously and fearlessly produced in their own studio, including also the crunching and electronica on Gushie of the bizarre boings on Red Polo Neck. A brave and bold release, pushing the boundaries and worth allowing to sink in with a careful hand on volume level. Out on Rough Trade.
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