How weird is a Wanweird, it’d take a complicated Venn diagram to describe it, like some complex mathematical concept involving adding up multiple infinities with some bigger than others. My head already hurts but we reckon if you add all the levels of weird up we reckon you get a Wanweird.
Ron and Don Weirds attention span is short once again on this latest album, tracks are anything from a few seconds to about a minute or so long. There are a few prog punk epics that last a few minutes including a tribute to ‘Yes’ (Ediitor: probably not Yes, really) at four plus minutes, at the end.
Its dark sounding and bounces ecstatically from all out noise attacks to chugging riffs that just keep building intensity. The music is surrounded by vocals that sound as though recorded in some place far away. There are truly disturbing asides, whispering voices that may be coming from the CD or form in my head
There are scuzzy punked up tracks such as Phlegm with its dark twisted blues and Radioman with its flat out maelstrom of noise followed by a doom laden riff that builds up tension
Its hard to review so many tracks or shards of music as I’m thinking of them, and sometimes the track listing and my CD player are in disagreement as to where we are in the album so if the names are wrong blame the technology. In the context of Wanweird this seems legit.
The album sounds ad-hoc, invented on the spot, Ron and Don can seriously play though and they sound like they are letting go of any inhibitions they may have left, however few.
When they do extend the tracks length though there are genuine ‘song’ moments like ‘Manbin’, ‘Radioman’ and ‘This Ain’t no Fuckin 1990s’. Killer riffs are thrown about with abandon and then thrown away. A creative and fucking disturbing offering (like the previous ones then) from Wanweird. Defies categorisation and to be honest, defies review. Totally recommended.
Words: RBY, Images: RBY, Wanweird Media.
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