Maillist
FOCUS ON: Neptune
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- Label: Table of the Elements >>
- Genre: Other
"Neptune arent just another squad of noisy art-rockers...
Theyre a complete package, pulling up to venues in a psychedelic van painted with a giant merman (Neptune himself, one supposes), and emerging on stage with unholy contraptions fashioned from scrap metal by guitarist/vocalist Jason Sidney Sanford. The drum sets are piles of oil cans, circular saw blades and assorted car parts, while the guitar and bass look more like medieval weaponry than traditional instruments.
Neptune really do accurately approximate in their music the tragic and violent desolation of the auto graveyards from which they draw their raw materials. The fact that the guitar and bass are built from metal affects the timbre of the instruments, the bass sounding harsh, almost distorted, while the guitar rings with surprising clarity. It would be wrong to say that Neptune display a mastery of their craft, because in this context, the word "dominance" seems a lot more apropos than "mastery.".Theres no point in trying to resist; you just hunker down and let it roll over you like the sonic blitz it is. Neptune are more than dominant-they're mesmerizing and seemingly omnipotent." Pitchfork
