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Addie Brick and Plaid are Bonded in a spunky bass-and-beat-powered vehicle for sultry female vocalizations. Many of the tracks feature some fairly raucous rhythms, like the explosive entry into Thumper (I Could Not Let Go) from Persona and Warn Defever, which passes through several phases in its metamorphic course.
The mutant grungefunk and alien voice fragments of Plate Core by Squarepusher and Richard Thomas seems to step through a jazzily noirish sci-fi soundtrack.
Fairly straight instrumentation is crafted into a sweet, wonderfully syncopated weirdness as Rivers Become Oceans (7:50) when bass ensemble Rothko pairs with Four Tet. Gritty electrocurrents are injected with hyperkinetic beats as Void and Twisted Science experiment with growling frequencies and the bludgeoning effects of drumbeats in Shock. Gauzey guitar filaments and thin e-percussion back the subdued alt.rock vocals of Reminds Me of the Sun from Sophia and OBX
Cylob and Mike FLowers unload dozens of fragmented samples into the peppy whimsy which is 199..., along with drunkenly festive horn splinters. BJ Cole and Luke Vibert are Wanging It with aggressively weird audiodistortions pumped by insistent drum outbursts. Blistering sheets of drum-and-cymbal glare override the surging electronic streams which emerge from Hrvatski/Blitter's sputtering drum'n'bass frenzy of Nuclear Cats Get New Home; indeed, warbling feline electronics appear to add an animalistic sense of absurdity.
The plucky bass strings of Rothko resurface with Bassoon Monsoon, swathed in softness then scathed in abrasive squawls in the enigmatically titled, Fuck You Fuck Your Endoscope (apparently a re-interpretation of the Bassoon Monsoon, Fuck You Fuck Your Telescope, if that helps explain...)
Richard Thomas joins with Kid 606 in the full-on madness of Psychedelic Rock (2:11) as assorted sound shards are subjected to much mutation. The disc closes on Brain Drain, a cheesy collection of buzzy old '70s-ish samples warped into an infectuously upbeat (if not rather grungified) toe-tapper from Stereolab and Hairy Butter.
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