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These guys are obviously not all there in the head. Not just because of the music, which we’ll get to in a minute, but because they only finally changed their name from Purple>Sticky>Punch when Sony got a bit miffed that it was shortened to P>S>P, and not for the much more obvious reason that it was a bloody awful name. Obviously they were too busy crafting this stonking debut to worry about such petty things.
Like I said, the tunes also offer up plenty of confusion. There are time changes, tracks that veer constantly between grind, thrash and hardcore, not forgetting the two tracks of Deftones-like ambient rock that neatly split the album into three. Then we have the numerous sudden false endings in most of the songs. I can only imagine that when played live, the entire band stop motionless for a second, gurning like loons, then kick right back into the noise.
Most of the tracks follow the same formula of mixing really rather quite heavy hardcore with some thrash and a bit of groove - think Converge meets Kylesa – but there are enough variations to stop it just merging into one long noisefest. A bass-heavy intro to Deadly Art Of Illusion, a NWOAHM guitar break in Glory Grabbers Unite, and a feedback-strewn ending to It’s Happening Again all keep you off balance and trying to guess what will come next.
It’s hard to pick any standout tracks, since the energy that runs through every track will make you spasm, head bang and air drum to everything, even if it is only for 20 seconds before the song moves on.
Listen: www.myspace.com/errander
Tracklist:
1. Glory Grabbers Unite
2. Double Your Fun To Be Fair
3. Glass House Lane
4. Now We’re Gone
5. Destroyed Still True
6. Deadly Art Of Illusion
7. The Process, The Problem
8. Through The Door
9. The Operator’s Last Error
10. It’s Happening Again
11. Kill The Anticipation
