Self Made Maniac can be listened to, absently hummed, or dissected by a music reviewer who’d rip the stuffing out of it if he could only find a loose thread.
With tunes that rise and fall in pigtail-bouncing chromatic progressions, this music lends itself to being sung in loud, easy harmonies, cruising down I-95.
The often aggressive-edged Catch Twenty-Two, like the Offbeatniks, Mustard Plug, Skankin’ Pickle, and Eclectics, fit between the Bosstones and Operation Ivy.
Three Roni Size tracks (pushing drum’n’bass towards its obvious jazz-based ends), one by Goldie, and several featuring superstars from Metalheadz and Reprazent.
Wiith Gallery of Suicide, they manage to vary their pacing and styles, mixing in some cool grindcore structures with their old-school death metal stylings.
Proving that Beck doesn’t have a monopoly on eclectic compositions, Jamie Di Salvio enlisted the aid of 20 Montreal-based musicians for this offbeat offering.