THE ROGERS SISTERS do crazy things with the clarity that is to be had in moments of rocked out instability, and take their listeners on a sonic rollercoaster ride that is demonstrative, loud and possessed by an undeniable urgency. Debut album 'The Invisible Deck' showcases all of this and more, and the result is one that melts the head in a melting exposure to glorious feedback, all gain and no distortion.
Tracks that have made their way onto the trio's spat of single releases sit restlessly and disconcertingly aside the rest of this paranoid and temperamental overload of the senses. Thus, the wild ticking guitar pickup frenzy of 'Never Learn To Cry' and 'The Clock', with their superb controlled feedback, all gain and sporadic distortion are interspersed with the juxtaposition of simple and complex vocal harmonies along with the epileptic bursts of wild energy that characterise the build up of tracks like 'Money Matters' (a right ear bleeder if ever there was one), and 'You Undecided', both enhanced by drop-outs and the brutal fuzz of melancholic basslines.
The typical three-piece 'full-on, hands-on' sound is brimming with voxed out reverberation, but for all the overloaded abandon, there is such an all pervasive feeling of control that the impression is one of great strength, akin to holding back a tidal wave. Nevertheless, it's relentless stuff, and for the rock music afficianado who likes to be immersed in gain heavy noise, this is an echoing cocktail of stimulii crammed somehow into a ten track whirlwind.
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Relentless percussion, along with that spoiled & weighty stream-of-consciousness delivery makes for a brooding tone of vile poison that spits and asserts itself at full volume (and that's the only possible volume to hear this album at!). The mindless 'I Want/I Don't Want' tension is another impressive constant along with the sound of slightly tamed feedback – and the appeal of this is immediate, angry and persistent. Repetition is shamelessly employed as point after point is hammered,hammered, hammered home. It defies gender completely too, and for that, you have to stand back and admire it.
Ending with the screaming conversational twin vocals of 'Sooner Or Later' before sudden dropout ends this for good, there is a hole left in the head and a slight agitated breathlessness. For power achieved with the uncompromising, straight-up tactical components of volume and feedback, this is a clear-cut and impressive debut, one that slam-dunks itself into your mind, simply by ensuring that you cannot hear yourself think.
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