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ARTIST
MELT BANANA
TITLE
Fetch
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
AZAP
CATALOG #
AZ 009LP
AZ 009LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
5/17/2024
"From the whip-like crack of
Yako
's signature staccato vocals and impossible-to-memorize lyrics to the relentless overdrive tempo of their one-of-a-kind prog-core,
Melt Banana
have long resided in a cybertopia of their own devising where the limits of technology and human capability are old-world concerns as quaint and cumbersome as bartering with a blacksmith. The demos for
Fetch
, their first studio album since the severely fried pop-punk of 2007's
Bambi's Dilemma
, were completed in March 2011, but the Fukushima earthquake changed everything, including their ability to concentrate on recording. Which stopped completely. Once they felt ready to return to their music, they decided to approach the songs on a sound-by-sound basis, choosing each tone with meticulous attention to detail, affirming their personal connections, being themselves naturally and openly.
Fetch
scrapes glam shimmers off punk's outermost fringes and forges them into a rather intensely technical Deanscape packed with fantastical hybrids.
Agata
's guitar riffs, seemingly composed in tandem with skipping CD players, are more badass than ever, bright and fractured like the soundtrack for a
CC-Hennix
-scored biker flick. The album is juiced with electronics and post-rock production, tempering what could easily be a tiresome and predictable frenzy, yielding unexpected associations:
Kate Bush
climaxing on
Walter White
's blue meth; demos of late-period
Wire
playing metal run through Wasp synthesizers and Autotune; unripe wild lychees keeping time on an Ankgor Wat tin roof during a monsoon. This is a group that routinely excels at several kinds of impossible simultaneously, so of course any new challenge they come up with for themselves is sure to blow the doors off your Mini Cooper."
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