Saturday, February 21, 2009

Arab On Radar - Soak The Saddle



Powerful and cathartic, Arab On Radar represent a unique brand of psycho-neurological terrorism. Listeners have reported seizures, heart attacks, and heightened states of sexual arousal upon repeated use. This "Soak The Saddle" was the thirth studio album by this Rhodes Island Noise Rock act in 1999 ( 3 years before disbanded ) under Skin Graft Records. "Soak the Saddle" CD contains jumbled, blathering, and spastic noise rock coupled with vocals shifting in and out of coherence, rambling on about quirky dirty-sex abstractions and childish dirty-diaper themes. Something that confused me was the title of the songs, they were entitled as numbers, but it was randomised. Though it may be considered punk in some circles to aggravate the listener, it's pretty unpunk to charge people money for it. This relentless grind and screech could suffice as passable garage scrape-core if coupled with an intelligent, provoking singer. The music is driven by the pounding drums, and also two guitars which duel like scratchy, trebly, Bizarro-world versions of Mick Taylor and Keith Richards. The songs don't go on too long, and each one has a new idea, and overall it was a menacing or powerful album with crusty drums jackhammer. Guitars whistle like tea is ready. It's shrill and calculated.

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