When everything aligns, albeit briefly, the effect is wondrous. The music splashes and slashes your face like shards of ice, transforming every skin cell into the finest porcelain before shattering them into a thousand tiny fragments, each of which bursts into a flare of purest energy, spiralling across your field of vision, pirouetting before a stage housing four skittering silhouettes. You smell burning on the air. It’s the tiny hairs inside your ears. They’ve gone the way your other senses are headed: to a flaming Heaven of bootlegged pop smashes and dangerously volatile beats ‘n’ riffs. The figures lurch slowly, as if on reel-to-reel videotape at start-up, before pummelling the tools of their trade into splintered kindling. The figures know of no genre-specific boundaries to hold them back; we know of no single force in the world that could do likewise.
Of course, when the physical environment conspires to thwart their hold on the senses the effect is pretty far from transcendental – the trademark laptop stutters and hard-drive adrenaline shots sound like crickets drowned by a flood of pneumatic drills. When it’s right, though, it’s so right.
That obstacles remain in their way is natural – you don’t fight your way up from the deepest catacombs of the underground without getting a little dirty – but that so few remain is illustrative of what 65dos have achieved in the last 12 months. Their star is in absolute ascendance, and all anyone else can do now is watch it go nova.
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Was it quite good, then?
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too fucking right. NO FUN AT ALL with a hangover. urgh. my own fault i suppose...
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I think they'll probably have a bit of a rest after this one though, and possibly record a new LP? Anyway, i've booked my tickets to see them and YMSS supporting Mono in Sheffield in May.
Bring it on!
Woo.
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Anyone going to High Wycombe tonight, anyway?
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(also, union bar prices. hurrah!)
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Who were rather good, also.
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Review of the Review.
WHAT DOES ALL THIS WANKY SHIT MEAN??!?
ICE SHARDS???PORCELAIN SKIN CELLS??Did this bloke actually listen to the band or spend the whole gig fancying himself as the next voiceover for a Gillette advert?Imagine living with the cunt "Why this toast effervesces with marmite like the light from a black sun in a universe of lost souls.The tea, however, is a lonesome affair, deprived of sugar like an orphan gaping longingly at a picture of its dead parents." Good luck with the writing career.Tosser