Dystopia One: Attempted Mustache
- Start
- All Cops Are Dicks
- Poster Boy For Cheese
- (Buy Back)
- Skinheads Don't Get Hathead
- The Syndrome
- Sewer Side Groin
- Heaven
- The Power Of Ipecac
- Dead Bug Cemetery
- Bronson Not Brosnan
- Dating Is Prostitution
- Stalker
- Big D
After the unfortunate collapse of None of The Above Records early in 1996,
Dystopia One have rebounded by finding themselves a new label rather quickly.
This time they have chosen to add a few oddly tuned guitars to their music
which has given them a bit of a grunge flavor. I really don't understand the
lurid fascination with an out of tune bass guitar that warbles and drones out
the rest of the music. Half of the music becomes buried under the feedback and
resultant fuzz factor and makes the rest of the music almost meaningless.
Dystopia One have left their industrial roots totally behind on this new album
and only maintain some ancestry with the noise fundamentalists out of Japan
with the feedback and cacophony. However there is one saving grace on this
album, that ultimately lies in a creative destruction of a once annoying Bryan
Adams track. If you've ever truly hated the cheesiness of Bryan Adams pop
sensibility than you'll get a kick out of this ritual torture of his music. I
broke out in a fit of laughter when I first heard this track and I think you
will as well. There is always something to be said for a band that goes out of
it's way to destroy pop art in such a manner although I'm at a true loss of
words from the rest of the album to explain how or why.
Dystopia One are:
Baz Turd - vocals, keyboards, f/x
Mr.Hymson - drums
Jonny Cock - fuzz bass #1
Decline - fuzz bass #2
Contact:
Rawkus Entertainment
65 Reade St
Suite 2B
New York, NY 10007
(212) 566-3160
E-mail: bazini@rawkus.com, dys1@aol.com
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