Crutches exerts an unrelenting pressure of dry, flat, gradually shifting iterative pummel. Sifting all unnecessary sugars, moisture and musicality out of things, this album is what I was yearning for when I first heard Shellac. We all have our reference point, though. What's yours?
My favourite No Balls song is the first song I heard from them, whatever it was. albinobone
It's great when you can find a streamable version of the songs you have had in your head for th epast 10 years. Stumbling into this album has been a milestone of my year! carvas
No Balls apply the familiar battering, repetitive aesthetic to a woodshop full of power tools by the sounds of it. Brittle shards of guitar chime next to squalling, murky psychedelia and crumbling bass (?) all conducting themselves in what sounds to be a military operation to confuse the enemy, render them insensate and hopeless.
For me: Caspar Brotzman Massaker meets Burmese and White Hills, but nobody likes each other. albinobone