Thursday, April 13, 2006

Maximum Headlessness - Untitled

Artist: Maximum Headlessness
Release: Untitled
Label:
Roil Noise Offensive
Year: 2005
Format: CDr
Tracks: 13
TRT: 51:33



Another Roil Noise review. This isn’t like I only love this label it’s they just put out some very unique releases from all over the world and this one is one of them.

I will start out by saying that I hate punk music and was never interested in it at all growing up. Maximum Headlessness is punk music, but not in the conventional sense. He mixes noise and abstract sounds very well into each track and the production is top notch. Within in a few of the tracks are movie samples, which I find, add a lot of humor to this release and some of them work very well with the sounds going on. Example is Jim Carry in Dumb and Dumber yelling his "most annoying sound in the world" that is being looped a couple of times while the track progresses. Very comical and it doesn’t take away from me liking the music. That’s right, I said I liked it. Before I hated punk music and this release of Maximum Headlessness is making me open my mind to the genre again. Kudos to anyone who can do that with one album.

There are a couple of tracks that don’t do much for me but that doesn’t mean much coming from someone who doesn’t know much about punk music. Maximum Headlessness is an artist and you can tell. He doesn’t just yell and make fast "punk drums", he uses keys and guitar very well and it doesn’t sound half ass. He’s a bloody one-man band. He does a very good job at doing covers as well, such as "Paint it Black" or as titled "Paint it Blah". Cool shit. I don’t want to spoil anything but you get your moneys worth here for sure because I was surprised myself. I’ll just say that any industrial fan would enjoy this release as well.