Severed Heads: Gigapus
- Heart of the Party
- Tiny Wounded Bird
- ANIMal
- The importance of Hair
- Repetitive Strain Injury
- Arrivederci Coma
- DOLLARex
- Cabbalaland (with M.C. Newsagent)
- Snow
- Somewhere Over the Gigapus
- Courier
- Pure
- About Leah & Adele
- Nightime Falls
Severed Heads returns on this domestic version of an original 1994 Australian
only release. Tom Ellard has always been known for his bizarre sensibility and
inane music structure but this album takes the cake. Perhaps I've outgrown the
synth pop of my youth but I find this album to be a frightenly evil and twisted
example of the late British synth pop movement. Just when you think you've
possibly heard ever sick and evil piece of music composition, Severed Heads
steps in and throws you for a loop. One can see where many of the second
generation industrial artists derived their origins on this modern example of a
degenerative musical technique. The only person who could possibly have a more
annoying singing voice than Tom Ellard would perhaps be Edward Ka-Spel of the
Legendary Pink Dots and it might even be a close contest. The whole album comes
off as an inordinately unsuitable example of electronic composition. I don't
even want to imagine where some of the samples were taken or how this music was
written for fear that it might lead to the torrid depths of my own mind. Bile
rises in my throat as each second ticks away on the disc player console as I
experience the same shocking disgust that came over as I finished watching such
films as "Seven" and "A Clockwork Orange". Tom Ellard needs to be locked away
before he drives any more innocent listeners to the brink of their mortal
constraints.
Severed Heads is: Tom Ellard
Contact:
Decibel Records
615 N. Milwaukee St
Milwaukee WI, 53202
E-mail: decibel@earth.execpc.com
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