h.Chinaski

Chin Music

I'll admit it. I first judged this album by it's cover. A tight Marxist solidarity fist is raised to the air with a red-star in the background. The animation has a touch of Soviet-style propaganda color and hue from the post-Bolshevik revolution phase. I can't help it, I'm sensitive to leftist politics and I couldn't help but notice at the bottom right hand corner that mysterious "OBEY" tag that you see accompanying the equally mysterious Andre the Giant posters on walls around industrial areas in heavily populated urban regions. What's going on? Anyway, when I finally popped this into my player I didn't get what I bargained for. These guys aren't political! They have feelings and they want you to know that they hurt. Screeching vocals accompany lyrics like "I've been saving up all of my bottle caps for my very own flying saucer". These guys reminded me of that S.F. based band A Minor Forest with that clean, unaltered guitar sound and "slick hands on the ass bass", and those unforgettable angst filled earth spattering primal screams. For all of its hair splitting spew, I must say I got into this band's mini songs and especially liked the painful harmonics on "Lucky". --JA

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