It’s a CD or a download. It’s music – guitar music. There are five songs. But Fearless Vampire Killers insist it’s not an album, a mini-album or an EP, but ‘a literary exposition. So there’. Their website contradicts this forceful assertion by referring to it as their new mini-album, though. It’s hard to decide whether to declare them pretentious crets (and misguided ones at that, for since when was punk rock literature?) or to applaud their precocious audacity.
Some credit is due, because ‘Exposition’ does represent a band taking chances. Instead of their usual writing process, each member of the band has contributed a song (or should that be ‘audio text’? After all, some theorists contend that everything can be taken as ‘text’ and therefore worthy of scrutiny in the context of a postmodern interdisciplinary approach to culture, society and the arts... but I digress). They therefore ran the risk of the end product being an incoherent mess. Fortunately, it isn’t. It is, however, by turns a fiery racket of big, biting guitars and mediocre emocore. And the five ‘characters’ all have daft names. Not funny, but lame. So there.
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