Motherfathers

Год:2007

Студия: various places

Описание:Vaguely entitled “Kolchak!”, the band’s debut in small doses may easily mislead an inexperienced listener as there are some great songs hidden under the general cacophony. The quartet’s sound draws on abrasive, murky, slowed-down noise rock of 80s, but there are also quite a few moments that almost make the album into a melodic neo-psyche record, albeit a bludgeoning one. Tracks like “Avenue Cracking Truck” and “Otesanek” hurtle with odd time rhythms, scratching guitars, and some sort of electronic distortions, while soul-vamps “Shiver” and “Stale” are melancholic song-ruminations about alienation, depravity, and the disturbing side of human nature. The vocals of Peitsch range from an anguish senseless screech to creepy prophetic delivery at “White Noise” and his oblique lyrics add to the overall mood of dread. The truly bizarre thing about this album is that, in its own mad way, you can actually dance to it as the overwhelming chaotic absurdum on songs “Dirty Scissors Inventions” or “You Suck My Tongue” sometimes gets close enough to a crunching groove. For the most part however all instruments sound at a dank level of destruction squelching with white-noise manipulations. As a whole, trash-rock by MOTHERFATHER really is like little else on the Russian underground scene. You either loved them or loathed them – some did both – but it’s difficult to ignore their defiantly extreme, noisy, abrasive, and sometimes very pleasant anti-musicianship psychosis.