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That's right, kids, your favorite Welsh pop nutters are
back in force! A volatile mixture of bristly, quirky pop
gems and riff-intensive peculiarity, Guerrilla sports
more hooks than a bait shop and more space aliens than an
X-Files marathon. "Night Vision", for instance, is a fuzz-laden
aural analogue to a 2x4 across the forehead, while "The Door to
This House Remains Open" proves that bossa-nova inspired
drum'n'bass needn't be a capital crime. For the electronica-friendly,
"Some Things Come From Nothing" dabs psychedelic whitewash
over the Aphex Twin Hotpoint Commercial style, and "Nothern
Lights" skews heavily towards calypso lounge turf. However, for
my money the true spirit of the Super Furries can be summed up in
the disc's final tracks. One one hand, "Chewing Chewing Gum"
melds hummable oddity with overblown, po-faced silliness, while
"Keep the Cosmic Trigger Happy" swamps an overdriven,
classicist pop riff in electronic flubber and swaggering rock-star
mojo. Put it all together and what do you get? Guerrilla
if you're lucky; a massive explosion and subsequent dearth of
melody if you're not. My advice: take the rabbit's foot along on
your next record-buying trip, just in case.
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