Thursday, August 30, 2007

NO SAFETY-THIS LOST LEG, LP, 1989, USA




Absolutely definitive Downtown NY R.I.O.-ish art rock, No Safety's fidgety and punchily muscular take on this genre perfectly captures a moment in time when the sundry signifiers of this scene were coalescing into something immediately identifiable. It's a sound that perfectly synthesizes what each party here brings to the proceedings from their previous units (R.I.O.-like angularity, visceral post punk immediacy, mutant funk elasticity), fusing the idiosyncratic methodologies that the participants have honed to razor sharpness in outfits like V-Effect, Skeleton Crew and The Orthotonics into something intense, commanding and full of lopsided fun.

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2 comments:

  1. Anyone here listen to the Zs? If not, do so immediately.
    http://www.zzzsss.com/

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  2. You described this perfectly- what a weird sound... half RIO, half No New York.

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