Morkobot – Morbo

There’s no doubt about it, Italian label Supernatural Cat are out to eradicate all traces of rationale in music. Mere months after melting senses with OvO’s Cor Cordium, they now unleash sonic explorers Morkobot’s fourth robo-jazz beast to hammer the final nail in the coffin of sanity but in some perverted way Morbo makes perfect sense. Maybe it’s the OvO aftershocks at work, but somewhere in the vortex of molten bass and schizophrenic time-signatures there’s a solid groove at play.

It can help to think of it as an unholy musical three-way between Keelhaul, Primus and Kraftwerk but, while the mental visuals of that tryst may be too horrific to imagine, the output is delicious. It’s a dizzying swirl of robotic blips and bleeps and kitchen-sink percussion that can either be hypnotically persistent (MoR) or unpredictably twisted to the point where you feel the band could well be out to murder you and your family (Oktomorb), but until they hit these shores it’s probably safe to keep the windows unlocked and simply bask in the weirdness.