Mincemeat Or Tenspeed - Strange Gods - Zum Records
“No synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, drum machines, computers, musical instruments, or ulterior motives.”
Such is the message pasted onto Strange Gods, the new album from Mincemeat Or Tenspeed. Is the declaration/warning really needed?
Nah. It’s obvious from opening track “Hulot” that Strange Gods has more in common with electrical current than “proper” music. Mincemeat Or Tenspeed ride waves of feedback like surfers scaling a giant, white-hot crest of pure manic energy, soaring and swooping as the syrupy bubbles of sweet dissonance pop and explode, covering you with hot-pink audio duck sauce.
If it sounds tasty it’s because it is. I used to delight in taking the piss out of suffocatingly insular bands like MOT. Now, I couldn’t be more embarrassed of that temporary viewpoint, as I realize groups like Mincemeat, Wolf Eyes and its scholars, Basalt Fingers, Prurient, John Wiese, DJ Scotch Egg, Lightning Bolt/Mindflayer/Wizardzz, Landed and many, many more are forging the audio explorations future generations will look to for inspiration.
The emperor from Star Wars couldn’t match the florescent, purple-yellow hue of the electricity coming from David Harms‘ fingers. He wields his weapons of noise-making in a violent manner, standing over the listener menacingly and daring you to move. Go ahead, try him …
You won’t budge a muscle; you’ll want to hear what happens next. Don’t be afraid to let this one creep into yr head slowly. It’ll eventually lay eggs, its seed spreading throughout your body. From there, anyone whom touches you will incur a tiny shock, as if they’d just jumped off a trampoline or rubbed a balloon in their hair.
DO NOT PANIC. This is a perfectly normal physiological response to Mincemeat Or Tenspeed’s stimuli. That’s it, let it take you under …
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