MGR vs. SirDSS - Impromptu

One to hurt your ears and mess with your head

Album Review by Chris Bathgate | 09 Aug 2007
Album title: Impromptu
Artist: MGR vs. SirDSS
Label: Neurot
MGR vs. SirDSS sound like they've discovered Spaceman 3's Dreamweapon under a rug next to the washing machine in their dad's garage. They're not quite sure how to switch it on, though. It keeps cutting out and then explodes, fusing with the washing machine and opening a wormhole to the Forbidden Planet soundtrack. Forging an amalgam of guitar, synths, bowed cymbal and samples over these four soundtracks. They fuzz and drone, reworking the paranoid spaces in sound travelled by Flying Saucer Attack, Acid Mothers Temple and Wolf Eyes. Layered psychosis crawls through loopstations and explosive echoes are smothered, only to re-explode and distort all over. There is a battery of effects they use to build and pull down the feedback, which rises to the levels of Part Chimp and Mogwai. This is one to hurt your ears and mess with your head. [Chris Bathgate]


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