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I'll get the obvious and overstated out of the way posthaste:
for brief moments, Twinkie sound like Sonic Youth
and the Pixies. Many have already made note of this, so
I won't beat a dead horse. I'll add my own to the mix in that
there are a couple of songs that sound like they could've come
off of Babes 'n Toyland's To Mother EP. The rest
is a lot of experimental indie-punk that often seems like a wandering
and aimless stream-of-consciousness exploration of punk soundscapes
and methods that occasionally end abruptly. Sometimes, the music
restarts as a foray into coherence and then slowly diverges. Apparently,
this album is a compilation of material from prior EP releases
extending back nearly a decade which could explain the stylistic
inconsistencies from track to track. But for the last two songs
of the album, everything changes and Twinkie becomes what sounds
like a different band entirely, where the entire songs are tight,
polished, radio-play tracks devoid of the prior experimental meandering.
They were certainly the easiest to listen to, but the other songs
also contain quite a few moments of inspiration. However, one
must wade through a fair bit of screwing around to get to those.
This is not unexpected, being par for the course where most experimental
or ambient noise music is concerned.
If the last two tracks are new material, and encompass a new
philosophy to making music on the part of Twinkie, then I eagerly
await their next album. "guess the weight of my wife the
horse" is an easy-flowing and contiguous song that uses the
learned elements of prior experimentation, yet seamlessly integrates
them into a poppy rock song. The dual male/female vocals complement
the instrumentals quite well. This is a band that could be on
the verge of increasing its popularity with a catalog of experience
that, while not appealing to a lot of listeners, will certainly
serve them as a well of artistic resource to draw from when creating
material with wider appeal.
-JD
Track Listing:
1. hi lo medium
2. mr pierre
3. mondomingo
4. on the verge of a moral collapse
5. to do is to be to be is to do
6. this is your enemy taking over the world
7. crime
8. our man D.A.V.E.
9. dick cave
10. 3743
11. aardvark barracuda columbian
12. chaff the queen
13. guess the weight of my wife the horse
14. tk-1
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