SHRIEKBACK FINALLY BREAK THEIR 8 YEAR SILENCE RELEASING THE LONG OVERDUE ALBUM, NAKED APES AND POND LIFE WHICH AIMS LESS FOR ELECTRONIC DANCEFLOOR ACCEPTANCE THAN THEIR PREVIOUS ALBUMS.....WITH APLOMB.
POLYSYLLABIC LYRICIST BARRY ANDREWS AND CO. TAKE A SIMILAR, PERCUSSION LADEN APPROACH SHOWCASED ON THE EXOTIC AND OVERLOOKED '86 ALBUM BIG NIGHT MUSIC AND DELIVER A COLLECTION OF SONGS THAT RANGE FROM MOODILY ATMOSPHERIC TO DISTURBINGLY WEIRD. IT'S DRENCHED WITH RUBBERY BASSLINES, CRASHES OF FOUNDSOUND AND SNARLED RANTS THAT CAUSED ME TO DO A DOUBLETAKE AND THEN CHUCKLE.
"Chicken salad running around/Spilling their jizz on the consecrated ground/God's cadaver lying there/Check its pulse and comb its hair/Plug its asshole, disclocate the spine/ Scrape it all off and tell me what you find":TAKEN FROM THE SLIPPERY TITLE TRACK.
SRIEKBACK HAVE TWENTY YEARS BEHIND THEM OF BEING CREEPY TO THE HILT, LYRICALLY BIZARRE AND SONICALLY INNOVATIVE AND THIS LATEST OFFERING RANKS WITH THE BEST OF THEIR WORKS.
GOOD STUFF!.
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