SUB-DIVISION The Primos Hard Soul ________________________________________________________
Fuck, their name reminds me of that
Rush song. Now I’ve got creepy
images of Geddy Lee in my head. But that’s not your concern. What you need
to know is that Sub-Division don’t sound anything at all like Rush. They
are, however, pretty creepy, in a broken-doll-that-keeps-on-dancing-long-after-the-music-has-stopped kinda
way. They hail from Mexico City, and they play minimal, muscular garage
skronk (think Death From Above 1979) mixed with Garbage-y rocktronica and
littered with ethereal drug-disco effects. Lead singer (well, the chick
that says stuff. Singing, not so much) Amira Baltezar has a crazy carnival
chirp, like Bjork on a bumtrip, the band is half man, half machine, and
the overall sound is like the cartoondelic French pop StereoTotal, only
with a smattering of Detroit grease. “The Primos” is actually an EP, or
perhaps an extended single, with three songs, three remixes, three CD-Rom
videos (didn’t watch ‘em) and then a bunch of sound samples so you can
remix the songs your damn self, if you wanna. Not bad at all, really, but
I still switched over to Onslaught’s Power of Hell rekkid halfway through.
I just don’t need that many blips and bleeps and little girl whispers in one afternoon.
Fuck, their name reminds me of that
Rush song. Now I’ve got creepy
images of Geddy Lee in my head. But that’s not your concern. What you need
to know is that Sub-Division don’t sound anything at all like Rush. They
are, however, pretty creepy, in a broken-doll-that-keeps-on-dancing-long-after-the-music-has-stopped kinda
way. They hail from Mexico City, and they play minimal, muscular garage
skronk (think Death From Above 1979) mixed with Garbage-y rocktronica and
littered with ethereal drug-disco effects. Lead singer (well, the chick
that says stuff. Singing, not so much) Amira Baltezar has a crazy carnival
chirp, like Bjork on a bumtrip, the band is half man, half machine, and
the overall sound is like the cartoondelic French pop StereoTotal, only
with a smattering of Detroit grease. “The Primos” is actually an EP, or
perhaps an extended single, with three songs, three remixes, three CD-Rom
videos (didn’t watch ‘em) and then a bunch of sound samples so you can
remix the songs your damn self, if you wanna. Not bad at all, really, but
I still switched over to Onslaught’s Power of Hell rekkid halfway through.
I just don’t need that many blips and bleeps and little girl whispers in one afternoon.