Album Review
Mamarracho – “Fifty-Nine” – [Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers]
Louie Caliente 3/26/2019 7-inch, A Library
Mamarracho are Shobu and Fuyuhiko Saitoh, two Japanese brothers and both former members of The Gerogerigegege. According to the liner notes, Shobu is the “young captain with false sportsmanship”, while Fuku is the “eternal bench warmer”.
“Fifty-Nine” is a banana-yellow baseball-themed 7″ with four aggressive tracks. A joint release on Destroy All Music and Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers.
Hunt The Sluggers (A-1) and Camping For Victory (B-1) are face-smashing thrashy grindcore. Big walls of distortion, squealing feedback, and real drums! Both have vocals (of sorts), although they are completely unintelligible, and in the case of Camping, sound like the microphone was swallowed before recording.
Next Generation Of H.H.S. (B-2) is traditional Japanese power electronics. Quasar blasts, machine gun static, electro-squiggles, and radio tuners. For me, Deformed Uniform (A-2) is the stand-out track. A hypnotic bass line with K-hole beats and an electronic edge. Slow and sludgy.
you heard it 23 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 828 days ago, lexi glass played Deform Uniform
- 1322 days ago, Reject Girl played Next Generation Off H.S.S.
- 1323 days ago, Reject Girl played Hunt The Sluggers!
- 1324 days ago, Naysayer played Next Generation Off H.S.S.
- 1328 days ago, Avakhov played Hunt The Sluggers!
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