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These Monsters
"Call Me Dragon"
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Author: Palmer Eldritch.
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There’s a reason why
Mogwai
don’t have a sax player. It makes your prog / post / whatever-rock sound like
Zappa
going heavy metal. When the sax isn’t parping, the band sound as expected - like
Mogwai
, with a touch of
Tool
. Oh, there’s also some barely-audible metallic shrieking in the vocal department. I’d expected more from the PR name-dropping, to be honest; album recorded with the chap who has worked with
Electric Wizard
and
Napalm Death
, support slots with
65 Days of Static
and
the Fall
and Brew are putting out the CD, but your clangers don’t make a band. The music is very earnest and built like Godzilla. There’s still got some way to go before
These Monsters
’ illustrious Scottish predecessors are woken up for a nocturnal piss, much less given ‘nightmares’.
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Tracklist:
1. Call Me Dragon
2. Dirty Messages
3. Who Is This Tall Sick Man
4. Biggie and Tupac
5. Harry Patton
6. Space Ritual
7. Deaf Machine