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« on: October 04, 2011, 08:41:31 PM »
here is a review for the degreaser lp:
DEGREASER ?Bottom Feeder? LP (NGL)
Sometimes a record is nail-on-the-head titled. The package complete. Song titles clue you into what the record will do for, and to, you. 'Bottom Feeder' is a heart-of-darkness kind of safari; a trench that your ego fell into, and it?s down there in the muck, swimming around, sucking off the other scavengers for sustenance, and hoarding any remnants of pleasure remaining. ?Swampy? doesn?t even begin to describe this record.
Singer/guitarist Tim Evans, a very tall man borne of Tasmania, and member of several significant Oz bands, channels the darker ends of human emotions. I can?t make out most of what he?s saying but I?m not sure it even matters; it sounds as if he?s recounting all the nasty things he?s done, but to himself, trying to figure out if he should feel ?bad? for these things, or if that is just the nature of Man, men.
?Teeth in Mouth?, ?Like a Ball?, ?On the Throne?, ?Snake Dick Blues?, ?Caveman?s Lament?, ?Human Postcard?, ?Treat You Right?. That last one is probably a cruel joke. These are the blues; NYC transplant No Wave blues for sure, but the unmistakable bleakness is older than time. The music on here is heavy in the way Godflesh or Swans is heavy. It is smothering. Endless trails of delayed-out noise-guitar flail over the rumbling and crashing of the rhythm section as they plow forward, as if of one mind.
This album is most certainly a maelstrom, a vortex; Evans is down in his hole, with the Devil perhaps, but even worse, with himself. Does he even want to climb out? Listen to this album and hazard a guess. Unless you get sucked down there with him, another victim of the black Hole. (Doc Toxic)
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