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Weird WarIlluminated By The Light Drag City/Inertia If you've followed the post-Make Up path of Ian Svenonius and Michelle Mae you'll know 'Illuminated By The Light' is their fourth full length album and the third under the Weird War moniker. Guitarist Alex Minoff remains pivotal to the group's sound while Trans Am's Sebastian Thomson brings the beat via drums, roto-toms, bongos and more. Like its predecessor, last year's 'If You Can't Beat 'Em Bite 'Em' this record shows off some juicy bass lines and increasingly fuzzy, phasey, Prince-meets-Deep-Throat guitar work, and like any Weird War record it's packed with infectious musical and vocal hooks and, consequently, it's dance floor fodder. As always, Svenonius' lyrics are at once clever, colourful, inane and sloganistic. Thomson's drum prowess is for the most part suppressed, the math-rock powerhouse content to knock out straight beats with flashes of cowbell and handclaps. Whether it's frazzled acoustic guitar, ragged hand drums and desperate falsetto as on Earth, Mama, Woman, Girl, Child or kebab-house aerobics mixtape mantra ala Mental Poisoning, Weird War lays the funk and the cheese on thick. If you don't like lots of wah wah guitar steer well clear. For those of you who think you know what you're getting into, start practicing your sex face and hip thrusts in the mirror now.  |
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