review 186

ASSOCIATION AREA (Can): “Stop Motion Hasbeen” MCd 1998 s/p

RECENSORE: Unknown

VOTO: 6,00/10

DURATA: 20:49

Tracklist

1 - Tuck pack 2 - Steakwater 3 - Kaiju Flick Nights 4 - Grandular Cement

Damn. I think it’s easier to review MORTICIAN than a band like

this. From the very package and artwork, the band’s something

absolutely unusual, makes me feel like when I browse through used

records in stores and I end up in the experimental/noise/prog

sector. Makes me feel so fucking ignorant so you’ve been warned,

I am not the best person to describe this music, but I think I’ll

give it a try. The cover is some sort of brown carboard which

folds out in a lyricsheet… lyrics are either so full of those

American sayings that I am not able to get any meaning, or my

poor English completely casts me off of the play, I dunno, I can

say it’s the sort of brainy stuff you read in bands such BOTCH,

ICEBURN or LIVEFLIESONFLESH, I tried a bit but gave up immediately.

Take it the way you want, I feel more comfortable with more clear

cut stuff, yet this Cd makes my head spin trippy, like the last

two NUCLEAR DEATHs, sometimes it’s almost jazzy with clear cut

drum and bass, slow paced and crystalline, sometimes the vocals

get shrilling high, sometimes sounds like harmonized with a radio

noise effect , sometimes it gets the paranoid grunge feel of SLEEP…

dunno, if we had to rate the sheer braintwisting folly of ASSOCIATION

AREA, I don’t think MR. BUNGLE would fall far off, anyway, just

like the few bands which play this way, a matter of identification

is difficult and it’s their stronger weapon in the market of carbon

copied bands… they want to play it weird, and like to let the

listener try to identify it… is there something more frightening

that that you can’t catallog and understand? Whatever, I feel

unstelled and a bit anxious when listening to this stuff.