Ex-Jane’s Addiction bassist Peter DiStefano pulls out some aggressive techno, a distortion drum’n’bass adventure. Some pissed-off Sneaker Pimps-style vocals.
Sometimes, you just gotta take the bad with the shitty. First off, bad reference to the seminal punk album, This is Boston Not L.A. Second, get some soul.
For all the “chaos,” they’re pretty predictable. They play soft, you know it’s gonna shift to thrash. They play loud, you know they’re gonna shift into jazz.
Od Gang of Four outtakes, leaving the underlying structures mangled & warped & then the love child of Iggy Pop and Pere Ubu’s Dave Thomas to sing over it.
A left-of-center, high energy, melodic Naked City. Avant-guard vocal harmonies mixed with rock-trio sounds, albeit through a prism of serious weirdness.