City Calls Revolution
Label: Beta-lactam Ring
Rated: NONE
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As “psychedelic” music in the United States and Europe gets more and more nostalgic, leave it to a Japanese trio with grindcore roots, no less to poke a lysergic stick in the genre’s third eye and make it run around the room screaming. There are four songs on this 75-minute album, and each is quite different from the others. The most aggressive is the rocking eight-minute noise-rumble of “Demagog,” while the most expansive is “A Day in the Planet Orange,” a 40-minute (!) symphony of swelling feedback and dizzying semimelodic passages. But threaded throughout the album is a ruthless sense of adventure and unabashed musicianship. Unburdened by theoretical constraints, GMFTPO allows their visceral impulses to roam free, resulting in improvisational chaos that’s as intricate as it is exciting.
This article appears in Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2005.