Dalmatian Rex and the Eigen tones 'geek' (sorted)
I'm sure I mentioned these in passing a day or so ago when we took a peak at their brand spanking new download only release 'everybody is a robot except me and my monkey' which you can access via the bands website at www.myspace.com/dalmatianrexandtheeigentones - anyhow 'Geek' is the release that momentarily got away until that is head Eigentone Paul kindly sent us a replacement copy. Strictly limited by the looks of things to just 200 hand numbered copies - which in case you are wondering ours is number 13 which depending on your perspective could be viewed as both and good and bad thing given that it could mean that only 12 copies have shifted or indeed if the distribution is from bottom to top then only 12 copies are still available. Either way it's a corking slice of 'do not adjust your hi-fi set tuneage for Dalmatian Rex control the horizontal, the vertical and all the weird bits in between for the next 5 minutes and thirty eight seconds at least.
Oh to inhabit the strange skewiff world of the Eigentones, their misfit sounds all at once acutely absurd and disturbingly distracting, pointless trying to pigeonhole they morph, mutate and manifest through a freewheeling floorshow of 'please themselves' styles, some recognisable other knocked up you'd suspect in their away from prying eyes secret sonic bunker, no doubt the bastard offspring of the Cravats and Van Vliet. 'Geek' is ludicrously catchy, by their wired anti pop standards almost a blunted stab at a spot of chart friendly pop stardom, a playfully disturbed would be anthem for 'geeks' who apart from somehow taking over the world while everyone was asleep in the late 90's have in the case of those of the computer variety become the nu age equivalent of train spotters. Well that's my view and I ain't being moved from my position on the soapbox. Anyhow before I digress anymore - 'Geeks' is admirably set to a charging and decidedly demented and dinky punk laced lo-fi power pop surge that sounds like it was loosely swiped from Devo's arse pocket over which a rhyming shopping list of Geek loves are proffered in a typically deranged deadpan delivery - a kind of Geek psychological profile if you like - we scored one for the Shellac obsessions. Absolutely barking. Sadly our copy is minus the protective tin foil - don't even bother asking. Flip the disc for the oddly unravelling 'the woke up this morning song' that unless I've serious missed a few pages appears not unlike one of those moments when you wake up in a trippy hangover state resulting from last night's dream wherein your heads all fuzzy and reality has momentarily been a tad untied and left wandering, we usually get them when we've eaten chilli peppers after an evenings session at the local village watering hole. Anyhow best approached with caution. Oh yea the cover has a picture of a rubber duck with glasses wearing a tie. Very strange. And so with that normality - whatever that is - resumes. www.dalmatianrex.co.uk
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I'm sure I mentioned these in passing a day or so ago when we took a peak at their brand spanking new download only release 'everybody is a robot except me and my monkey' which you can access via the bands website at www.myspace.com/dalmatianrexandtheeigentones - anyhow 'Geek' is the release that momentarily got away until that is head Eigentone Paul kindly sent us a replacement copy. Strictly limited by the looks of things to just 200 hand numbered copies - which in case you are wondering ours is number 13 which depending on your perspective could be viewed as both and good and bad thing given that it could mean that only 12 copies have shifted or indeed if the distribution is from bottom to top then only 12 copies are still available. Either way it's a corking slice of 'do not adjust your hi-fi set tuneage for Dalmatian Rex control the horizontal, the vertical and all the weird bits in between for the next 5 minutes and thirty eight seconds at least.
Oh to inhabit the strange skewiff world of the Eigentones, their misfit sounds all at once acutely absurd and disturbingly distracting, pointless trying to pigeonhole they morph, mutate and manifest through a freewheeling floorshow of 'please themselves' styles, some recognisable other knocked up you'd suspect in their away from prying eyes secret sonic bunker, no doubt the bastard offspring of the Cravats and Van Vliet. 'Geek' is ludicrously catchy, by their wired anti pop standards almost a blunted stab at a spot of chart friendly pop stardom, a playfully disturbed would be anthem for 'geeks' who apart from somehow taking over the world while everyone was asleep in the late 90's have in the case of those of the computer variety become the nu age equivalent of train spotters. Well that's my view and I ain't being moved from my position on the soapbox. Anyhow before I digress anymore - 'Geeks' is admirably set to a charging and decidedly demented and dinky punk laced lo-fi power pop surge that sounds like it was loosely swiped from Devo's arse pocket over which a rhyming shopping list of Geek loves are proffered in a typically deranged deadpan delivery - a kind of Geek psychological profile if you like - we scored one for the Shellac obsessions. Absolutely barking. Sadly our copy is minus the protective tin foil - don't even bother asking. Flip the disc for the oddly unravelling 'the woke up this morning song' that unless I've serious missed a few pages appears not unlike one of those moments when you wake up in a trippy hangover state resulting from last night's dream wherein your heads all fuzzy and reality has momentarily been a tad untied and left wandering, we usually get them when we've eaten chilli peppers after an evenings session at the local village watering hole. Anyhow best approached with caution. Oh yea the cover has a picture of a rubber duck with glasses wearing a tie. Very strange. And so with that normality - whatever that is - resumes. www.dalmatianrex.co.uk
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