Mute Socialite / More Popular Than Presidents And Generals
Album: | More Popular Than Presidents And Generals | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Mute Socialite | Added: | Jul 2008 | |
Label: | Dephine Knormal Music |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2008-07-13 | Pull Date: | 2008-09-14 |
---|
Week Ending: | Aug 31 | Aug 24 | Aug 17 | Aug 10 | Aug 3 | Jul 27 | Jul 20 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Aug 28, 2009: | Memory Select - Joe Maneri Edition
(Prelude) / The Damaged Country |
4. | Jan 02, 2009: | Memory Select
(Prelude)/The Damaged Country, Me't |
|
2. | Mar 20, 2009: | Memory Select
(Prelude)/The Damaged Country |
5. | Aug 29, 2008: | Memory Select
Me't |
|
3. | Feb 11, 2009: | Baptism of Solitude
Violet Smith |
6. | Aug 21, 2008: | press and release
More Painful Than Sex, Me't |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2008-07-04
Reviewed 2008-07-04
Punk/metal instrumental band led by Moe! Staiano, with fast scribbly guitar, ten-ton bass, and TWO drummers. Rapid-fire, agile pieces, a slashing noisy attack with thickly dissonant chords. A sense of abandon but played with precision. Solid, crisp rhythms and speedy riffs -- so you can rock out *and* enjoy your brutal harsh noise all at once. It's maybe like an instrumental XBXRX ... but I'm sure there are better comparisons out there in the world of hard prog/metal.
The skeleton of prog's multifaceted writing, the blood of 150-degree speed metal, the overcaffeinated nerves of well executed punk rock.
1- Fast, a bit dizzying, with a stomp-stomp beat. Awesome bass twiddling in the first minute.
2- Fast and shredding: Hummable, in a dissonant, chaotic way. Downshifts for a nifty fast-driven segment later
3- A slow-grinding burn, dark and spooky.
4- Big booming crash-beat, mid/fast, head-bobbin'. Lotta scribbly guitar and some "calmer" avant-noise breaks.
5- Low-key interlude
6- Ghostly lingering w/fast clock-ticking beat; hard-crash guitar/drums. Later, some catchy melody, before plunging into fuzzy noise.
7- Danceably strong beat, almost new wave keyboard sounds. Crazed babble near the end.
8- Hard-pulsing brutality, fast. A cover of the band Massacre!
9- Slow, heavy, dissonant.
10- Midtempo, almost conventional rock-sounding
11/12 - Distant guitar noodling, then hard-driven mid/fast stuff, a nice intense conclusion to the album.
The skeleton of prog's multifaceted writing, the blood of 150-degree speed metal, the overcaffeinated nerves of well executed punk rock.
1- Fast, a bit dizzying, with a stomp-stomp beat. Awesome bass twiddling in the first minute.
2- Fast and shredding: Hummable, in a dissonant, chaotic way. Downshifts for a nifty fast-driven segment later
3- A slow-grinding burn, dark and spooky.
4- Big booming crash-beat, mid/fast, head-bobbin'. Lotta scribbly guitar and some "calmer" avant-noise breaks.
5- Low-key interlude
6- Ghostly lingering w/fast clock-ticking beat; hard-crash guitar/drums. Later, some catchy melody, before plunging into fuzzy noise.
7- Danceably strong beat, almost new wave keyboard sounds. Crazed babble near the end.
8- Hard-pulsing brutality, fast. A cover of the band Massacre!
9- Slow, heavy, dissonant.
10- Midtempo, almost conventional rock-sounding
11/12 - Distant guitar noodling, then hard-driven mid/fast stuff, a nice intense conclusion to the album.
Track Listing