Joined : December 04, 2006
Hmm, well, musically it's great. If George Thorogood spent the weekend dropping acid and listening to Captain Beefheart, he might come up with something like this.
I'm not so thrilled by the lyrics. It's okay that they're cryptic--they really do remind me a bit of Beefheart. But a couple of the songs seem quite misogynistic, and the frequent profanity ... look, people just shouldn't use cuss words in a foreign language unless they are really, really good at that language. It usually--as in this case--comes across as pointless crudity.
Not the kind of thing I usually like, yet I can't stop listening to this album.
Grimace at times sounds a bit like Cake, sometimes a bit like early Talking Heads, but mostly like ... something else altogether. They'll set up a quiet jazzy groove, then assassinate it with a deafening punk guitar; effortlessly blend a ska rhythm with chanson-esque vocal track; and weave darkly beautiful melodies out of raw, dissonant sounds. Out of the starkest dynamic and stylistic contrasts, they somehow fashion a coherent sound. The band is very tight and, I sense, 100% committed to the music.
I hope we will hear more from Grimace.
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