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Warser Gate / Can Can Heads

This is a cross-country pollination experiment of sorts, as England's Warser Gate commingles with the Finnish Can Can Heads. Warser Gate's cavernous, cacophonous recording behooves you to reconsider 4/4 time as a standard. "Sleep Rituals" is hardly its namesake, as plenty of trebly, overly-distorted cymbal crashes and garbled yelling screech from the record’s grooves. "He Said" suggests that the Gate either has vestiges of creative genius or is merely a massive headache machine -- or perhaps both, depending on your musical slant. The Can Can Heads have a more restrained feel that's coincidentally reminiscent of 70s Kraut rockers Can. With repetitive drum beatings and infectious, throbbing bass lines, the Can Can Heads apply the principle of mid-tempo rock as a mood-distorting medium with precision. The intermittent, whining feedback on "All-Night Gunshop" provides an exasperating listening experience which, coupled with the indistinguishable, warbly vocals, is like a relaxing bath in a tub full of glass shards. Entertaining as a locked groove, "Samsara" viciously repeats itself with orbicular behaviour. Noise collectors and you cyclical mood types take note, Boing Being has sniffed out some appropriate contenders and released havoc from its home base in Korkeakoski, Finland!

Warser Gate / Can Can Heads
Split 7"
Boing Being
7"

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Review by Andrew Magilow

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