The Dust: Monkeypunch
(Sister 9 Recordings)
Vinyl | CD | DL accessible right here
Launched 1 August
5.0 out of 5.0 stars
Sonic sidekicks Jack and Sachiko (aka The Dust) return two years from their debut Agitator, upping their recreation and pulling the (monkey) punches with one other platter of spoken phrase psych that’s up there with the most effective of them. Wayne AF Carey evaluations…
Two years feels like a very long time, but the trusty duo haven’t been mendacity down idle. Touring relentlessly, journeys to Sachiko’s homeland Japan, cooking up the ingredient for the following installment which is now prepared in all it’s glory.
Opening observe Into (Reality Extinction) is a darkish thrilling builder with Jack coming throughout all prophetic: “Demonised and criminalised for not standing in line. As darkish forces gorge on property each owned and loaned. Free spirits banished and pushed right into a vile vacuum. Story tellers promote laundered logic as information” All of it swirls menacingly till Jack pronounces – “That is The Dust. Welcome to The Monkey Punch.” Finish Video games is an exciting punk rock experience with some psychological drum sounds and bizarre as fuck suggestions from Sachiko, blended with repetitive riffs that shudder and shake. Jack is at his angriest peak right here: “Gained’t sit nonetheless – received’t lip seal. Gained’t break arms will soar partitions. And dance reside and be free!” It’s a six minute rush of adrenalin. Mattress Of Nails slows down the tempo a bit with a haunting drum beat backed by Sachiko’s tradenark squall of results pedals inflicting a constructing swirl of moody noise that’s a psych because it will get, with Jack announcing his hatred of capitalism and greed: “They wanna tax something they cant steal. No voters voted you God. The intangible shouldn’t be so that you can steal. Forged blind eyes to jets and yachts” Darkish and great.
Gaelor is combine up of basic Fall and Pleasure Division, with a Hannett manufacturing sound run by way of a psychedelic washer. Jack is on type but once more together with his cryptic lyrics from the thoughts of a veteran of clever spoken phrase: “I’m not wanting by way of fingered arms, the doorways unhinged with a battering ram. No debt accrued from a sordid system, the malicious program completes its mission” A grasp of phrases. Crash Check is an echoing bastard with a doom like drum beat and the now acquainted sound of Sachiko’s leading edge results wizardry. It’s a sound that you just dive into and emerge from the depths with ringing ears from a cheerful place flirting with concern. “Damaged Glass will type the trail for ignorance toes. Don’t be deceived!!!” Darwins Regulation is one other gradual quantity dripping in early Spacemen Three and Spiritualized with a twist of spoken phrase from Jack to combine it up and query your thoughts: “That is Darwin’s Regulation. Blood hounds hunt of their hoards. Have you ever succumbed to the MONKEYPUNCH. Are you deaf dumb and blind to historian’s clutch?”
Jack is at his most shamanic on Demon Seed, backed with a wall of guitars and a tribal drum beat that shakes your ears and punctures your soul with a venom straight from the bowels of Beezlebub himself. “I see a demon with an extended leather-based coat. Pink paisley bandana overlaying his throat. Tilted trilby and eyes so vicious. He’s lurking within the nook of my unconscious” Chilling… OAK is one other darkish bastard, flirting with goth psych, once more with a tribal drum beat and a wave of guitars that float and fuck within the air. Repetitive but spellbinding after each hear. It’s haunting and drags you in with the high-quality lyrics once more: “I’ve no confidence in confidentiality. I jumped right into a wormhole to grab serenity. A propaganda puppet in a pantomime. You kissed rusty pawned off rings you continue to cover behind” A real wordsmith. First single and shutting observe from the album Chaos is sensible. One other nod to Pleasure Division right here backed with some basic strains from Jack, backed with that now acquainted psych sound from the chic fuckery of Sachiko’s loopy pedal assortment. It’s an offended bastard and filled with invention from the dynamic duo.
One other nice album from the duo who simply can’t do something improper in the mean time. Unsettling for some and mesmerising for many. Positively one of many albums of 12 months in my e-book…
Album launch celebration is at Night time n Day, Manchester on Friday tenth October. Tickets accessible right here.
Dwell at The Conjuring, Sunday seventeenth August with LTW favourites The Battery Farm and Evil Blizzard. Tickets accessible right here.
Phrases by Wayne Carey, Critiques Editor for Louder Than Struggle. His creator profile is right here
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