Album: Cell Scape
Song: Shield Your Eyes, A Beast Is In The Well Of Your Hand
Seminal noise-rock progenitors Melt-Banana have been around in one form or another since the early 90s. Ichiro Agato (guitarist), Riko Yamamata (bass) are the driving musical forces behind the band -- both are technically proficient and both use extended performance techniques and an array of pedal effects to transform their sound in unusual ways. The results are invariably interesting.
As always with bands like this, I hear in Melt-Banana a whole greater than the sum of its parts. The bass riff in today's song is very cool, to be sure, and the guitar riff is freaking awesome, but neither is truly radical nor seemingly sufficient to create a viable song. Combined, however, they create an interesting tension, and the scream-o vocals add an appealing element of...ummmm...psychosis?
Their CD recording of this tune is clean and balanced, and I recommend that everyone take a listen. But it's the live performance that really gets my heart pumping. There's an appealing element of danger. I fear in particular for the camera person's safety.
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