STARVOX MAG (usa / sept.2003)

by Mick Mercer

DEMO - POPOI SDIOH (Nerves Prod)
THE HORROR SHOW  / AUDIOCRASHTEST #10  / WANAWANA  / AUDIOCRASHTEST #7 .

A teasing little demo CD with two stupid noisefests (the audiocrashtests) would normally be the sort of thing I’d lob happily into the bin, but this has something. Being ex-Land Of Passions you’d expect quality and you get it.

‘The Horror Show’ is crazed and inventive, with teeming guitar behind twisting, twirling thrilling vocals. I have always loved short clipped vocals going in tandem with brisk jerky guitar, as it always leads to urgency and on this showing they’re like a hyperactive Bauhaus.

The other track, which also works divinely is ‘Wanawana’, with a throbbing guitar lime having its own heart attack, while nastily screwed up vocals spit and brawl. It’s like being held in a stinking dungeon full of smirking, sinister clowns.

Drama seems guaranteed, but without being forced or embarrassing.