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THE REVIEW

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH... I can't take it anymore!!!! |-) This is art! This is music! This is true punk!!

This album concentrates at least a couple of musical decades from every fringe, every genre, I would dare to say every band... the first track is black metal with a broken-down engine keeping time, and a pig occasionally grunting in an exhaust pipe; the second track seems like a mix of Mike Patton and the American theme song from The Addams Family, one of the most punky tracks I've listened to lately, I'm listening to it until I pass out!! The third track sounds like a slowed-down emo, sad but grotesque at the same time; the fourth is slowed-down industrial and at times almost Unsane, with the stupid drum machine taking center stage (its trademark); the beginning of the fifth makes Josh Homme and his now mellow and overhyped QOTSA blush; the sixth is one of my favorites, an out-of-tune music box, a sick birthday chant, WTF??!! Ahahaha, great! The drum returns in force and we're back to the similar death-core-doom, staggeringly cool! But why does the Amphetamine Reptile stuff (Melvins and Jesus Lizard primarily) come to mind??! Obvious answer... With the eighth, are we entering church? No, Yes, maybe... someone is getting married... or is it a funeral?! Boh... (the title is an album by Candlemass...) "Piano Handjob" is absurd and fits as an intro for the tenth, definitely an old-school Melvins track, crushed for a couple of minutes, with a final scream, which introduces the eleventh, and we're back to crazy and disturbing electronics, with laconic pauses and grinding rhymes. The twelfth is a remix, it's a bit YOYOYO (incredible, even rap!), but only for a little (rightly so...), immediately moving to rotten and disheartening sides (ahahaha:). Lovely children’s choir... The next two are covers: "Oracle" (Rush), and "Black Blade" (Blue Oyster Cult): think our hero is alone... it feels like he's singing them sitting on a saloon counter with a whiskey in hand, totally drunk!! AHAhaha... laughter abounds; "Black Blade" is a bit closer to the original (!!), even in length, yet without compromising the experimentation... "Obolus" (the 15th) is the most famous hit!!! Already the final track in "Sperm Whale", here it's presented in another version, which, as the friendly booklet tells us (with artwork by the esteemed Stephen O'malley), was supposed to be used in a film, before everything went to hell... it's slightly more robotic... usual mosquito bass. The sixteenth is, I believe, the most lysergic piece, a hymn to joy of crystalline magnitude and insanity; they should teach it to children in nurseries... let's move on... ahahahAhahAh... stop me!! Even the 50s gospel choirs are revisited and mixed with voices from a psychiatric hospital... the legendary drum machine goes crazy! "The walk" is dreamy, visionary, it cuts the laughter from your throat to transport you to the Himalayas... here there’s no joke... we're almost at the end... a bit of composure, Christ... I'll leave the last track to your interpretation, also because I'm sick and tired of this crap.

Great Joe Preston! It's obvious that all reviews tank you, but not mine.... even though this album is nothing but a collection of unreleased material, or released by the weirdest underground labels (primarily KillRockSTar, but also Vermiform, Soda Girl, etc.) in seven-inch format... thank you from the bottom of my heart!!! If only all collections were like this... anyone who disagrees can go buy Vasco's new box set... last laugh: UUUhahhahaAHHAHAHA|-)))