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By: Mark Gomes
Date: 5th Mar 08
Release: Album
To Cure: A predictable playlist
What:
Paradise
Who:
My Disco
On:
Stomp / Numerical Thief
Related links:
Live YouTube / another live YouTube
Launch:
March 22 at The Corner with Kes Band and Fabulous Diamonds
Win:
We have one copy of the album to give away. To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line 'miasmic clouds of feedback'
Reductive art-rock trio My Disco continue to distil the drums-guitar setup to its essence with Paradise - a new album of unsettling, hyper-disciplined, one-or-two-note dancing drills. It's a case of same-same, but different here in terms of songs, but knowingly, as each acts as a complementary exercise in the group's overall instrumental purification project. Whether sitting endlessly on tight patterns for minutes, examining riffs under miscroscope for flecks of difference, or allowing a rolling guitar drone to extend in miasmic clouds of feedback, My Disco don't flinch in reducing sounds for their punitive enjoyment in an arch-Modern sense.
Such limited concentration and sheer repetition would steer close to a joke in lesser hands, but My Disco pull it off with no hint of posture or proggy self-indulgence. Even the cover shot of the band perched atop a desert outcrop, subsumed by inhospitable landscape and dressed in what looks like garbage bags (!) is saved from death-by-mannerism by the group's burning less-is-more maxim; instead coming off as a perfect indicator of their stripped-bare, form-obsessed collective mindset. Tracks ‘An Even Sun' and ‘Land' sound like The Triffids expiring by electric chair; starved, burning and electric-shocked alterno-Australian anthems.