![]() ![]() I’ve been in edit and scan mode, working on a few different projects.Ĭool album alert - Liz Lamere’s new album Keep It Alive on In The Red Records is out. PDF booklet includes cover art by cartoonist Rob Syers, comics by surrealist Sonny Rosenberg & SKiN GRAFT Editor In Chief Mark Fischer, plus a double page spread of Yasuko's hand-written lyrics and additional bonus features! Recorded by Zeni Geva's KK.Null.Fanatic! I hope you’ve been having a great July. from Stereogum's "30 Essential Noise Rock Tracks" Taken at face value this might not be too far removed from vintage Napalm Death - whose debut was only released seven years before this track - though Melt-Banana’s interpretation is much weirder and more alien." Vocalist Yasuko Onuki holds her own, however, her vocals a fast-moving staccato chant more than actual singing and a piercing counterpoint to the guitars. There are couple of those on “It’s In The Pillcase,” one of the most direct, urgent blasts of noisecore on the band’s 1995 album Scratch Or Stitch (and featured in an even more frenetic version on the earlier selfsame SKiN GRAFT single and comic book set), but they’re fleeting, mostly overwhelmed by high-pitched tremolo-picked riffs, pickslides, and high-on-the-neck fretwork. Even on the band’s more stripped-down recordings, there are few moments in which he plays a basic chord. In the early days, I’m not convinced they were even played in an actual key. ![]() Dentist drills, rayguns, belt sanders? Sure. ![]() "Ichirou Agata’s guitars don’t really sound like guitars. ![]() Recorded by ZENI GEVA's KK.Null, it's so addictive, the record just sucks the needle down into the grooves again and again and again! Three songs of genre-defying bliss from Tokyo's new heads of class. Originally released as a 7" vinyl record and comic book set in 1995, MELT-BANANA's legendary, tectonic plate shifting SKiN GRAFT single is now available digitally for the first time! Includes an illustrated 18-page PDF booklet that reproduces the original 7" and comic book set packaging, including lyrics, band photos and bonus features. ![]()
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