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Makes You Dance
(2005/Memory Lab) |
Wrapping some solid gold glam rock riffs up in fucked up lo-fi jazz punk is what
Limited Express (Has Gone?) do. Some of the time. Predictable they aren't, but they're unpredictable in the same refreshing and lively way as April showers, rather than in the painfully desperate way that, for example, David Lynch's 90s cinema wankfest
Lost Highway was. There are elements of Tokyo New Wave in there (
Hobby Hobby is Polysics'
Each Life Each End without the Sigue Sigue Sputnik bit), just as there are strong elements of the Kansai noise scene (
Rolili Rolil shares Afrirampo's sense of squeaky vocal nonsense), although they seem to be influenced by pretty much everything.
Talk To Me, All Right sounds like Quruli in a meat grinder,
Sweet Music On The Beach plays tender games with dub before freaking out all Sonic Youth, and
>Jet Stream Attack lifts the opening to Blur's
M.O.R. almost as shamelessly as Blur lifted their song's melody from Bowie's
Boys Keep Swinging. Compared to their 2003 Tzadik records debut, this is a more self-assured effort. It's still frequently uneasy listening but it's also rough yet extremely rewarding pop music.
-Ian Martin, Nov.9.05.
