People have always used music for altering their being in one way or another- whether its your Grandads James Last lps or some Aztec chap slaughtering chickens in a ritual accompanied by screeching fiddle and guitar (I have the lp) or a bunch of hippies strung out on brown acid dancing in circles on the same strip of film they use in every single History Channel documentary. There's a part of our brain, that in some people is particularly well developed, that hooks onto and anticipates the beat, that actually synchronizes with the music our brain is hearing through our ears. Fascinating stuff, there's books been written about this stuff that you might want to read.
Zebra Attack - who had some sort of College Radio buzz going about them a few years ago, have produced an album that only a few people's brains will want to synchronize with. It's caught somewhere between Jesus and Mary Chain, Sonic Youth and the low brow noise-diving of Funhouse era Stooges. The opening cut - Sonic Blood is a pretty heavy, driving beat with rather large Bass sound that sets you up for whats to come. The production here isn't really the best and it does sound at times as if they just set up in the studio and played. It gets quite loud at times and the quality suffers a little but if you're playing this pretty loud anyway then thats not really a problem. Trans Missions Control, band two, is a bit jammy but then its a comedown from the first- actually the whole album kind of rolls like waves of psychedelic mushrooms with each new sensation getting a bit stronger than the next.
I've been listening to this kind of stuff for quite a while, and comparing bands always seems to me to be a little unfair. The good stuff on here is really quite good, and it stands up. As i mentioned before the production suffers a little at times but thats ok - some of my favourite LP's are soundboard recordings, and the long stretch of Join Compact Heart that fills out side Two, really didn't need to be there- but then maybe I'm just not listening with the right sort of chemical assistance.
The Zebra Attack - Lightweight Into Earblocking Noises
Side One:
1 Sonic Blood
2 Trans Mission Control
3 Secret Wave
4 Capture
Side Two:
1 Situation Sonic
2 Join Compact Heart
3 Organize Powers
2003 Soundexploder Records
Zebra Attack - who had some sort of College Radio buzz going about them a few years ago, have produced an album that only a few people's brains will want to synchronize with. It's caught somewhere between Jesus and Mary Chain, Sonic Youth and the low brow noise-diving of Funhouse era Stooges. The opening cut - Sonic Blood is a pretty heavy, driving beat with rather large Bass sound that sets you up for whats to come. The production here isn't really the best and it does sound at times as if they just set up in the studio and played. It gets quite loud at times and the quality suffers a little but if you're playing this pretty loud anyway then thats not really a problem. Trans Missions Control, band two, is a bit jammy but then its a comedown from the first- actually the whole album kind of rolls like waves of psychedelic mushrooms with each new sensation getting a bit stronger than the next.
I've been listening to this kind of stuff for quite a while, and comparing bands always seems to me to be a little unfair. The good stuff on here is really quite good, and it stands up. As i mentioned before the production suffers a little at times but thats ok - some of my favourite LP's are soundboard recordings, and the long stretch of Join Compact Heart that fills out side Two, really didn't need to be there- but then maybe I'm just not listening with the right sort of chemical assistance.
The Zebra Attack - Lightweight Into Earblocking Noises
Side One:
1 Sonic Blood
2 Trans Mission Control
3 Secret Wave
4 Capture
Side Two:
1 Situation Sonic
2 Join Compact Heart
3 Organize Powers
2003 Soundexploder Records
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