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7.8.07
 
CHROME HOOF - Pre-Emptive False Rapture
Southern

This band sound like nothing else you've ever heard - well, more accurately, they actually sound like a great many things you've heard before, just never played all at the same time. Initially this project was conceived as a bass and drums duo for Cathedral bassist Leo Smee and his brother Milo, giving the pair a platform to exorcise their mutual appreciation of '70s funk and disco. Soon they found themselves amassing new recruits, winding up with a large-scale troupe of multi-instrumentalists, and dedicated horn & string sections. That more or less brings us to this many-tentacled sea beast of a record. While the Scando-metal influence is thankfully all present and correct (see the operatic grindcore of the album's opener), you're quickly thrown into an entirely incongruous world of proto disco on the blistering 'Tonyte', which boasts some seriously fancy instrumental work and freakish, soulful stadium rock female vocals . Further madness ensues on 'Moss Covered Obelisk': after a brooding neo-classical opening on piano and strings, the track launches into some experimental jazz-rock that nods to Zappa and Sun Ra with similar degrees of irreverence. 'Death Is Certain!' is the most evidently metal-themed track on the album, with spectacular Nordic riffing and cookie monster vocals. Wrapping the album up, 'Egg 'n' Bass' drops some tight drum machine electro minimalism before the prog-funk epilogue 'Spokes Of Uridium', which makes like James Brown at a Goblin gig. It'd be a unique experience to witness all this business going on in a live setting. Even the band's Parliament-meets-Gwar dresscode matches their shameless genre-hopping. One of the strangest, most riotous releases in recent memory.

(tekið af boomkat.com)

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Battles - Mirrored (ég er alltof seinn hérna)
1990s - Cookies
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
False - 2007