24 : DEC : 04
Mick Mercer reviews Nurse Grenade :
Original Review
ANGELSPIT - NURSE GRENADE (Angelspit)
With ‘Maggot’ our boom-shakka electronic
noiseniks are swiftly underway, and it’s a vicious form. The
guitar rankles and jabbers in perfect time with jutting vocal utterances.
With quite a pert pop undercoat, and garish riotous daubs on top
this is easily exciting and effective in its attack, harrying you
into compliance by the thuggish chorus. ‘Fuck Fashions’
leans back and pouts, hands on hips as lightly razored rock guitar
keeps it moving along in a vexed Goth sense, as only basic percussion
is employed. This is economic, and as invigorating in its own way
as early Human League was, with the same wiggling nous but filthy
energy spewing out through their alien toes.
‘Infect’ is fairly uneventful, but
constantly caustic, and ‘Head Kult’ almost seems like
the same song, so the limitations are swiftly exposed, but we have
a unit finding their feet here, and those feet are lively enough
for anyone. More synth chatter fills out the shape, and so it becomes
musically juicier, seeping into ‘Meat’ which is undeniably
bleepier, as the vocals pop up to offer utter filth and it’s
become very playful, poppy punk in its energy.
‘Nurse Grenade’ naughtily feeds off
a lo-fi Led Zep riff, and it’s actually charming. Only now,
across the lumpy beat, does the vocoder become noticeable as it
vibrates among the noise nitrates. ‘Head Fuck’ has more
edge and gutteral power than ‘Head Kult’ being a sub-techno
remix, and then the quioxotic deviations follow, as ‘Fall
Angel’ is, apparently, “an ‘EMB electro-fuck-off
remix of The Crystalline Effect’s ‘Gabriel’”
which highlights lighter, an up pop cortex and the demurely named
‘Shit Fed (Drug)’ is nothing more than “a cyber
debauched remix of Anxiety Whispers’ ‘Spoon Fed’”,
which will doubtless make sense to someone.
This CD is full of life and manages to succeed
despite the similarities of many tracks, because they’ve emptied
everything out, and without clutter it gets to grips with the listeners
in an urgent manner.
No pose, just a bloody nose for all who get too
close.
Download the EP : http://www.angelspit.net/nurse_grenade/
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- Mick
Mercer |
