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No-Fi Soul Rebellion
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Lambs To The Slaughter [EP]
Wantage USA
Release: 3/08/2005
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Rated:
Review by:
Morley Seaver
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I like weird. So it's always a treat to find something that fits
that weird profile. I don't mean, "look at me, I'm weird" like
Gwar. I mean people who are naturally, unequivocally "out
there" - truly weird (nothing says weird like weird). So it was a
nice surprise to find No-Fi Soul Rebellion. Their Web site
carries this slogan about the logo: "Treading the fine line
between invasive awkwardness and cathartic
genius."
This is their fourth release and is... shall we say, succinct.
There are just five cuts, clocking in at just over 14 minutes.
They would probably tell us they're just cutting out the bloating
you find on most commercial releases.
No-Fi Soul Rebellion is essentially a one-man band. It's Mark
Heimer, an odd singer-songwriter who churns out funky pop
that percolates with a Prince-like vibe, complete with screams
and full-on guitar licks. A drummer provided the beats for the
record, but live it's a whole other thing.
Shows feature Heimer wandering through the crowd, singing
over the music courtesy of The Soul System. This device is a
hollowed out bass guitar containing a minidisk player that
pumps out the instrumental tracks. It's connected to a mic and
the stringless bass is played (air bass) by Heimer's wife
Andrea, while he is rolling around the floor.
Lambs To The Slaughter's quirky pop works well.
The first song "Church" is like a Prince tribute, especially with
the phat guitar break. "Beautiful and Hard" strolls along
innocently until it gets to the rave-up chorus. "We are David,
You are Goliath (?)" (which is mislabelled on the CD) is a
bouncy little toe-tapper that has some manic scream breaks…
nice! "Let's Go To America" (I think... can't tell from the
mislabelling) is a lazy funk-arama. "The Acrobat" rounds off
the set with its amusing lyrics: "The reason you are so
uptight... is that you know I'm right."
If you're looking for some fun bouncy pop, look no further than
here. If No-Fi Soul Rebellion is playing in your town, they
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