Gnaw - This Face
March 20 2009 at 08:33:03 AM
Chew on this. Alan Dubin returns upon a Shetland pony, naked, begreased, little hot pink pasties dangling from his nips. His screams are still skin-peeling; shrieks as weaponized as ever. Dubes even digs deeply from personae past, waltzing in mock time with OLD’s grizzled bones, adding flesh to aural experiments in sure as shit sabotage, hard luck court jester antic tart as dumpster juice. The motherfucker is unbound, in everyone’s grill and bringing the freak bummer down on the earth’s collective head. Yeehaw.
Band mates Jamie “Wardrumbz” Sykes, Carter Thornton, and sound-fucked-upers Jun Mizumachi and Brian Beatrice provide backdrop in constant “arty” flux, which boasts a commendable success rate and falls oddly flat in some instances. For every rarity that is actual song built brick-to-brick, there’s an oblong canvas of two cunt hairs and knob of acrylic paint. Sykes often sounds irritated, thumping the grump in fills that fall around farting electronics. He does toss in a bump ‘n’ grind breakbeat for good measure; Dubin reciprocates with really amazing voyeur recitation more tweaked and hard-cocked than cockless twink Perry Farrell ever imagined possible.
It’s a dizzying program. Some of it is downright oppressive. Too much, too quick. And then there’s Carter Thornton spidering this acoustic guitar web together at song’s closure, broken brain melody that shoulda been somewhere between
Blood on Satan’s Claw and
The Opening of Misty Beethoven. “Is there life on the earth? Is there life after birth?” Sho ‘nuff.
[Stewart Voegtlin]
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