It’s been a long time since the Science Man’s 2022 album Rumble of Science Man Nines Mecca Flissa our ear canals. Not that John Toohill – Leader of the group and Dean of Distortion – was based on his laurels after having released albums under a certain number of nicknames such as Black & White Cat / Black & White Cake, Brute Spring, The Hamiltones, Alpha Hopper and Moon. But Science Man is the group that brought me to the punitive world of Toohill and Monarque joy is their latest version since the transfer of a semi-solo project to a complete group of hardcore atoms to the same ideas.
The opening of the presaine, “SCIMN”, is a tortured saxophone skronk on which the drums explode with a rhythm of war dance, followed by guitars and bass hammering a low agreement and punishing both bars which deform when it breaks down. Then, with “Control Collar”, we are really on the way, surfing on a sliding of Riffs rock with full inclination, power agreements, frantic drums and a hail of gravel of barked voice.
Monarque joy is an implacable assault and Pell-Mell on the senses without time for the slow numbers of the lighters. Just as you have recovered from the hammering of “Ruthless Prism”, “animals” make up the speed with the guitar riffs and the rollers of frantic kit locked up in a feverish dance. “The group has surely reached a summit”, you think, but no, “funeral for an arm” explodes like nitro-glycerin; Faster, stronger, harder. In this relentless battery, there is a brutal finesse on the tracks with the chords which often jumped like chow yun fat and michelle yo’s top top fight in Tiger crouching, hidden dragon.
The album barely scratched 20 minutes, but it is so dense and ruthless that you feel like you have made 15 rounds with George Foreman sporting his gates instead of boxing gloves. This is an album with so much mass that you should not be able to pick up the vinyl; A collection of underground music so low on the sound register that it will trigger seismometers everywhere. It is spectacularly tectonic and on the Mohs scale – which measures the “absolute hardness” of minerals / rocks – geologists would likely judge that scientific man is leaving corundum And diamond in their rear view mirror.
This is dragster with the cut and nitrous brakes, and, like the Hulk, Science Man ‘Smash!’ If you are looking for rubble, you have come to the right place.
John: Song + guitar, Steve: Battery, Punch: Bass, Speed: Guitar + horns, Carter: Guitar, Aaron: Guitar, dave: guitar
The group also released the first part of a three -part set of short films which represent “the journey and the perilous transformations of an unnamed protagonist“And use”Stop movement, elaborate paper masks, handmade costumes, green screen bastardifying and reckless spirts of DIY punk; The result is something that looks like if Jodorowsky had done the last unicorn with Terry Gilliam with zero budget.“”
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