Bollock Swine - Empress Orchid's Joobachi Quantum Drive Indictment Committee

Hyun A Ji - Ultra Ululatios
Snooty Th Uterus Kid - Spastic Vox
Kikanju Baku - Dramz
Yoon Jee Kang - Vox
Sung Youn Lee - Backing Squeaks
Donkey - Strings, Vox
Jung Hwa Kang - Vox

I guess the story is… Donkey from Asscavern goes out to England to record improv grind with four, count 'em four Korean girls, an English grind drummer, vocalist and more. The result is Bollock Swine and you'd be smart to give it a listen. There is much craft to this mayhem. Killer riffing by Donkey and smart drum chops keep things developing nicely throughout the many assembled themes. The vocals work like instruments as screech after gurgle after holler splatter the mix with skilled restraint and release. Where some improv grind can be an endurance test, this comes off pretty musical and fairly easy to grasp despite the intense cacophony. Not sure how edited this is but major props are due if they tossed this off that well with minimal cuts. This is not immature spazzery and quickly you'll realize you didn't think of it because you couldn't. Great grind sounds alive and sounds a hearty primal scream ... the less labored the better and this is great grind. The packaging is a hand drawn art in ergot-meets-anime style on a 7" cardboard sleeve containing two cds. Apparently it was supposed to be a record and a CD but things get fucked up like that...all the better for me because I get the large packaging and the CD is easier to hear than the less portable vinyl. If you're like me and you find a certain Melty B a bit labored you should turn your attention to this potent collaboration for your asiany-female vocaled grind thing. If you wondered what it would sound like if Lightning Bolt and Melt Banana had a party and Asscavern and friends stole Lightning Bolt's gear and then made them watch as they had sex with Melty B, this is probably it. If you like dense and smart improved grind I think you'll be real happy when you buy this. Fuck the current trend of Japophile turd-grind. This stuff transcends trends.

July 10th, 2005