Melt Banana

Scratch or Stitch (Skin Graft)
by Nik Rainey

Damn those wily Nips. If showing us (U.S.) up in virtually every cultural/technological area worth noting (computers, cars, fat guys wrestling, suicide) wasn’t enough, now they hafta go ‘n’ one-up us on that quintessentially American art form, hardcore. If anything, Melt Banana is even more scarifyingly abrasive in its high-speed calamity than previous champs of the yellow yelp, the Boredoms. Think Naked City without the cooling salve of jazz. Think Yoko Ono in a g-force simulator with an amphetamized spider monkey. Better yet, don’t think – just drink a gallon of coffee straight from the pot, chase it with enough sake to make Mothra sputter like a ValuJet, and LOCK AND LORR!!! (Hope I’m not offending our Japanese readers – I’m not succumbing to cultural stereotypes, I just love your unique slant on th… oops.)