Ape Unit - Filth LP / CD
Crazy grind from Italy! Throughout Filth, riffs and bits come and go, used and discarded, blasting in one ear and out the other, always sharp and always ugly in the best ways; Marius’ vocals are frantic and manic; Steve and Umbi’s rhythms shift and slide, the starts stop and the stops start, a parade of twists at lightning speed, moving in and out. And yet, none of Filth is sloppy or disjointed in the slightest; somehow it all works exactly as it should, even as it seems senseless, silly, and damned near random; none of it anything more than a tightly strung pile of ideas rammed one into the next, and all of it possessed with a seriously unserious sensibility. It’s monkeying with the basic tenets of grindcore, kids — aping greats as far ranging as The Locust and The Afternoon Gentlemen and whomever else, and it’s bananas, I tell you. Purely bananas, and it’s damned good, all of it.
Esagoya Records