Cassette is the latest 6 track cassette from Art Trip & The Static Sound the underground art rock noiseniks who are Melodie Holliday, Tony Fisher, Sarah Byrne, Paddy Pulzer with the band's artwork by Dan Holliday. The mini album was recorded by Rollo Smallcombe at Crouch End Studios, mixed by Raphael Ninot and mastered by Giacomo Fargion. It has been far too long since I last reviewed them.
The ep opens with Algorithms Of Mass Destruction a clattering mass of anger at the delusional times we live in, systems block you, won't let you in, no matter if you use your fingerprint, eyeball, password or anything else, they are desperate.
Burnt Up On Re-Entry is a dark tale of a women who left home one day and evaporated, the shock and awe of her sudden disappearance, after trying to enter another country and being shackled and removed for not being right, or fitting into the proscribed categories, a modern tale of exclusion and mindless hatred that they are totally against, we all need freedom of movement, people shouldn't just disappear while trying to cross borders.
Cheese Spread is full of bile and anger and not a round of brie in sight, they ask why you always play with fire and get more angry against the splenetic guitars, why must you run away, well they are screaming and wailing and going nuts, oh and yep that's why we love Art Trip And The Static Sound in the first place.
Erasure opens the B-side and is nothing to do with the other song called Erasure by Gurriers currently getting airplay on Radio 6, this one asks why certain people are currently being erased or ghosted for telling the truth, or standing up for the rights we should all have, over clattering propulsive indie rock.
Great another dark twisted ramshackle indie rock monster of questions of what it is to be Great in the 2020's, the insistent drums and questions of will you remember his name. Power Of Three asks some deep questions, would a white girl want to play with a black doll and if not, why would the back girl want to play with the white doll, the fizzing guitars and tribal drumming take this into Skunk Anansie territory, the more they ask the question the more obvious the answer becomes.
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