These oddballs sound as crazy as they look. Where to start with an album as wildly eclectic as ‘Brothers and Sisters of the Black Lagoon’?
Choppy guitars, insistent bass grooves and tribal percussion give ‘Trapdoors’ a Gang of Four type edge. Wibbly, squelchy synths and looping keyboard motifs abound. A folky guitar riff is transformed completely by a wandering bassline and crashing cymbals on ‘Anklung Song’, and the dirty disco funk of ‘In the Face of Love’ is spiky and strange. Flying Lizards duelling with the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, with wild stutters and loops that crank up the sleaze and retro vibe.
Elsewhere, there’s shouty, primitive funk-punk, kinda like Shonen Knife wrestling with X-Mal Deutchsland in the shape of ‘Rocket #9’. Not just the kitchen sink, but electronic toothbrushes make it into the mix on the dronesome ‘Let Us Not Forget’ and the extended tubthumping tribal wig-out that is ‘Divine Horses’ pounds the album to a wild concluding crescendo.
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It’s all going on here. It’s dizzying. It’s also inventive and a lot of weird, far-out fun.
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