Scream If You Wanna Go Faster is the fourth album by Crispy Ambulance offshoot Scissorgun, who deal in improvised electro-rock dance, avant-weird crossover sounds, rather than being a recreation of everyone's favourite Gerri Halliwell solo album. Apparently much of the music is one take and done or minimally messed about with afterwards. Scissorgun are Dave Clarkson, Alan Hempsall and Adrian Ball.
The album opens with the dubby dance sirens of Seven Bells the tension is in the air, danger all around, weird noises and dark decay attack your ears. Face Deflector shines a light on the darkened edges of the electro clash nightclubbing sound, weird glitchy computer games noises, pulsar waves of bass, distended sounds around the repeating vocal lines.
Fresh Hell or is that welcome to the mid 2020's where hell is a new reality, this takes a Harold Faltermayer keyboard line and messes with it, turning it into a dystopian mind clash, computer adulterated vocals, disdainful drum pattern and an unsettling feeling of impending doom the bands bedfellows.
Fever Dream slows things down, feeling more ambient chill out zone, before the deep dub drums and bass come pushing through the walls at you, it then gets far dreamier and more existential.
Gone Rogue has an early 90's agit-dance feel to the lyrics about a new world order and the block rocking beats, that will deliver it into your brain, more efficiently than a Senser 12" remix would. Before the central vocals come in sounding like Marc Almond at his most despondent as he gets inside it.
Late Night Bento they have an urgent need for a bento box to fill them up after another night on the lash, the string-based electronica hints that this may not have too much chilli sauce involved.
The single Bad As Bingo is a glitchcore dancefloor tune for anyone who still misses Colourbox, this manages to recall the mid 80's and the mid 2020's at the same time, the guitar line is sort of familiar and yet with the squelching bass and sort of dance beat it sounds out of time and place, while they get so lonely and so cold.
Clam Shell Heart could be an argument over your preferred CD format but has a soundtrack to a sci-fi space epic feel to it. Magic Realism is ready to hypnotize you into seeing the world from Scissorgun's perspective, the piano slowly worming its way deep inside your brain along with the bird calls, ambient washes and odd train sounds.
The album closes with Cubano Nocturne that is ready for the latest Castro disco sensation, light up those cigars and let that bassline work its magic to drive the Guantanamo guards to distraction while you mount an operation to free the oppressed one funky guitar line at a time.
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