Fog is the latest album by New Zealand alternative noise legends Lung who are back with a new line-up of Dave White, Zak White, James Woods and backing vocals by Maryanne. With Lee Prebble Producing and engineering and the other James Goldsmith mastering.
The album opens with the hoover sounds that lead into the Bass heavy intro to Isolated Gun that may nick a line or two from Lou Reed's Gun, but showers us with intense squalls of noise, between all the reasons she has for having that gun, being the most rare of things an armed woman on the prowl, the loud quiet dynamics give this a feel, somewhere between Shellac and Amusement Parks On Fire.
Blood Clot isn't the West Indian insult, but a Lard like slice of grebo-punk distortions and intensely earnest vocals. RALPH won't sign them to his record label, so they accuse him of being nutty, this has a slight grin, on it's dark down tuned face, while it prowls the streets looking for another night walker.
Extra Spank has careening keyboards and bass with over driven guitars, stripping the glam from Rachel Stamp's Spank and coming up with dark shouted vocals, implying all sorts of nasty and pleasurable events, before it all seems to fall apart in the middle, ready for a speedy getaway ending.
Blue Ai isn't in love with new technology, and rages against the machines taking over. Recycle Man is a chant that we all need to pay attention too with Motorhead speed freak guitars, riffing into a wall of noise, like a trash compactor out of control, we can only urge you to recycle everything you can.
The title song Fog has a laid-back keyboard part that is all poppy, while the vocals parts see saw across the speakers, drums and guitars seem to have an impenetrable, intense feel like you are feeling your way through blind.
Panda has them totally out of everything they list, while trying to decide if they can make cocktails with Panda pops, or if they should just gaze at pics of Pandas all day long, the vocals have a Supersuckers style gruffness to the never-ending list.
Firestarter isn't the Prodigy monument, this has a burning intense squall of flames and furies, clearing the land of all that once stood on it. They hope the cleansing fire might lead them to the promised land rather than some new modern hell.
Tr*unt is about tango man and his evil ways, so has a miasma of nasty sounds, doing everything they can not to sound like Village People, this is heavy distorted reality, hard core most beautiful ballroom first dance sounding tune you could wish for, full of the distress we all feel for Drumpty's never ending bull.
No Idea Yet how we will get rid of the evil doers running things and bring back the good times, when you could go see Bailter Space at the Sausage Machine and keyboard lines like this one were on lovers soul tunes.
The album closes with Deaf In Both Ears (Kawasaki Reprise) which is exactly how you will be, if you listen to this at the proper wall shaking, floor quaking volume it deserves, so turn it right up and horrify your neighbours now! You won't regret it, they might.
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