Part Chimp | "THRILLER"

Part Chimp

"Thriller"

Rock Action

2009

Thriller feels absolutely huge. It sounds like it was recorded in a wind tunnel full of amp stacks, so full and immersive is the sound. Album highlight ‘Dirty Sun’ rumbles, screeches and crashes like an oncoming thunderstorm, anthemic vocals straining against the wind and the rain of guitar and battered percusion. Opener ‘Trad’ is detuned desert rock, powered by new recruit Tracy Bellarie’s (ex-Ikara Colt) furiously overdriven bass. The filthy raucousness of ‘Sweet T’ shows how fuzz and distortion should be used: as a system overload, the music straining to escape the confines of the speakers or headphones.

That sense of humour exhibited on record title and case manifests itself musically as an absurdist sense of bombast, with nine minute album closer ‘Starpiss’ leering and lurching between full throttle fuzz pedal to the metal and detuned fret mangling. This isn’t Muse we’re talking about, however, and whilst the tapped solos might raise a grin, there’s never the feeling that the record has descended into the histrionic.

I don’t think I’ve managed to capture just how enjoyable and driving the music contained onThriller is. Maybe it’s because the hooks are so gigantic, or the execution is so taut, but there’s something indefinably special about this record. It deserves to be played again and again, and not just as proof that Hydrahead and their US associates don’t hold the monopoly on breakneck rock music. Part Chimp they might be, but Thriller is one hundred percent prime rock and roll, that stands head and shoulders above the other knuckle dragging apes. 

-courtesy of drownedinsound.com

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