专辑简介

Chaotic and riff-dominant - a Red Bull shot of adrenaline straight to the heart. Chickenhawk is a raging schizophrenic multi-personality disorder of an album. Insanely original and musically adept the four members have fashioned a UK sound that stands up to the heavy avant guard of Naked City and Mr. Bungle whilst also having the riffs and head-banging nature of Melvins and Harvey Milk. This is weird. This is odd. This is strange. And not that fake kind of wacky or just a little bit unusual either, but totally balls-out batshit insane. Now while that does mean the self-titled debut outing from Leeds quartet Chickenhawk is loud, lascivious, and occasionally genuinely creepy- hell, there should probably even be some sort of health warning about listening to the whole record in one go here- it doesn’t half rock, roll, and roar with fantastic intensity, manic glee and top marks too. Opener ‘Dude-a-tron’ forcibly mixes glitchy electronics with harrowing screams (although frontman Paul sounds ready to **** down the neck of the first person that mentions Enter Shikari), ‘Piglosaur’, apart from having a great title, is a hail of punk venom, ‘The Let Down’ sounds like Rolo Tomassi covering System Of A Down, and if listening to the six-minute grinding, thrusting noise of ‘Gravitronic Liferay Table’ on headphones feels like going ten rounds with a heavyweight champion then lord knows what damage it’ll do live and in the flesh. Chickenhawk don’t stop there either. Across the rest of the 12 tracks here they nod to hardcore, metal, sludge, classic doom that would kill Ozzy Osbourne dead, the sort of intense, scabrous noise that the UK has always been good at (think Labrat or Gutworm), hefty does of American filth (like Harvey Milk), and pummel your ears in their own ugly way. This is without a doubt a band trying to piss of the neighbours, batter your brains, and steal Mike Patton’s heart all at the same time. There are so many ideas splurging out across this record in fact that you fear Chickenhawk might have blown their load early here but those are concerns for another time, worries for album number two- for now there’s only time to duck and cover or embrace the craziness. Recommended for fans of all the above bands and anyone who likes a serious dose of schizophrenia with their songs.