What's this? Bearsuit going all 'normal' on us? The first track on this, their latest compilation sounds for all the world like a conventional folk song. Well, sort of. It's a bit psychedelic and all, but... no, wait. He might 'have the blues today,' but Alyosha Het is singing about little green pills and little green men. Yes, it's business as usual at Bearsuit, purveyors of brilliantly off-beat and experimental music.
Over the course of fifteen tracks and a fraction over an hour, we're treated to all sorts of avant-garde noodling, from the avant-jazz electronica of Rhizottome to the warped world / glitchtronica of Whizz Kid: if you're looking for something far beyond the realms of the ordinary, this compilation comes highly recommended.
Kirameki's 'Take it Or Leave It' is pure 80s style industrial, somewhere between early Foetus and Test Department, a cement-mixer filled with samples, tape loops and found sounds mashed and melted together to brain-bending effect. Jimmy Rosso's 'Ripped' is subtle and strange, and begins calm and soothing, but develops into something altogether more sinister-sounding. Amazing what some clicking rhythms and eerily distorted vocals can do to a track's atmosphere.
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Bearsuit stalwarts Taub and Harold Nono / Hidekazu Wakabayashi are featured, and for those who've not yet checked out the releases their contributions are lifted from, this might just provide the necessary incentive, being entirely representative.
At the risk of sounding like a stuck record where Bearsuit are concerned, I have to say that they’ve done it again, releasing another album of consistent quality that's wilfully perverse and staunchly uncommercial, and all the better for it. If anything, they've pushed the boundaries even further on 'The Fall Will Probably Kill You'. The chances are that it will, so make sure you listen to this before plunging into the abyss. At least then you may die happy.
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