Quando si parla di un gruppo come i Locust non si possono usare mezzi termini. La questione è, infatti, una: prendere o lasciare. Eh si, perchè il quartetto di San Diego non produce di certo musica da ascoltare comodamente in poltrona o ad una serata romantica con la lady di turno.

Il sound dei nostri è quanto di più estremo possa immaginarsi, un mix esplosivo di grindcore, tonnellate di rumore e sperimentazione elettronica che, già nel '99, aveva lasciato i suoi segni con l'EP di debutto omonimo, divenuto ben presto un "cult album" della scena underground musicale. Nel 2003, i nostri ritornano a devastare i nostri condotti uditivi con Plague Soundscapes, album ancora più folle targato Anti, etichetta sussidiaria della Epitaph attenta ai suoni più diversi. 23 tracce perfette per 25 minuti di puro terrorismo sonoro (forti di un'ottima registrazione e della produzione di Alex Newport, già produttore e ingegnere del suono di grandi gruppi come Sepultura e At The Drive In), in cui la lucida follia dei nostri trifidi californiani risalta pienamente e ci regala pezzi magnifici e dai titoli impossibili e prossimi al nonsense come "Identity Exchange Program Rectum Return Policy", "How To Become A Virgin", "Anything Jesus Does I Can Do Better" (ma di cosa si fanno per inventare 'sti nomi???) o la conclusiva e più lunga "Pickup Truck Full Of Forty Minutes" (3 minuti e 51 secondi, incredibile!), che segnano il raggiungimento della piena maturità artistica, stilistica e musicale dei Locust.

Certo, Plague Soundscapes non è un disco per tutti, e forse ascoltarlo sobri non renderebbe molto, ma se non avete paura degli estremismi e volete concedervi una mezz'ora circa di pogo scatenato (ben accetto anche in poltrona) i Locust fanno per voi. Tutti gli altri optino per un libro di Francesco Alberoni o, in alternativa, girino alla larga.

Elenco tracce testi samples e video

01   Recyclable Body Fluids in Human Form (00:41)

Such and such a hero
has done so and so
Dick mythology (dickology),
don't miss out

Just an ambidextrous hunch
spawning an armless puppet child
skeptically in cahoots with
objectionable arch archetypes
Gullibility's acknowledgment confirms
by means of a broish' head nod,
Bamboozled nullifying vaccine
appreciation

Yet tip of the tongue cognition
yields to voiceless epiphanies
Pee floodgates just waiting for a pissy day.

02   Identity Exchange Program Rectum Return Policy (00:58)

Wrecked 'em? I don't even know him
Liaison for the nervous
your consensual embryo is revoked
Leave your body out of this

Passive aggressive bolts filled with anxiety
loosen amidst this cyanide vacuum
Its time for the eyeball crotch to have a looksee

Welcome to "that's enough of that"
located near "are you not my privates"?

A limbo bonanza if "this" then we weren't me
A styrofoam cup full of responsibility.

03   Solar Panel Asses (00:26)

04   Live From the Russian Compound (00:58)

05   Earwax Halo Manufactured for the Champion in All of Us (00:52)

what if i don't get a chance to go soon?
what then?

win win win win win win stipulation
what then?

Brains can't believe eyes,
i just want the thing

06   Wet Dream War Machine (01:24)

07   Listen, the Mighty Ear Is Here (01:07)

08   Who Wants a Dose of the Clap? (00:51)

09   Teenage Mustache (00:54)

Want to stay young?
Well abort now.
Otherwise you'regoing to make
a great dead cop.
Bet you think you are going to change color
standing there on all four feet
getting licked like a lollipop.

10   How to Become a Virgin (00:43)

They, the people
Done like your dinner

Taping fur to your back
does not make you a werewolf

Just like dying dads,
or already dead dads

Chance must be systematically explored
when dressed up like christman beef

11   Anything Jesus Does I Can Do Better (01:29)

Everyday I add to the list of people
who can kiss my ass
and imagine Mr. W
sucking the fuck out of it.

What is your astrological sign?
Stop. Stop!

Funny, hahaha.

Would the owner of an ounce of dignity
please contact the mall security?

Not funny, no, no.
Not funny, nope.

12   Late for a Double Date With a Pile of Atoms in the Water Closet (00:45)

13   File Under 'Soft Core Seizures' (00:54)

14   Practiced Hatred (00:34)

15   Psst! Is That a Halfie in Your Pants? (01:06)

16   The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like to See You in His Office (00:46)

Dear Mr. So and So
Wait until it's over
Nothing is King now
and Nothing's getting older
That jerk lives like
a missle with
his pecker (in) one hand and
his pooper (in the) other
What about the paperwork
-bowels working overtime
Feed the faxes apple dumplings
-pay that fucker overtime
hey there bossman
-fickle fucker
hey there bossman
-fickle fucker buy me dinner

17   Pulling the Christmas Pig by the Wrong Pair of Ears (00:41)

18   Can We Get Another Nail in the Coffin of Culture Theft? (01:17)

19   Your Mantel Disguised as a Psychic Sasquatch (00:39)

The chicken bit it
The foreskin knew it
The sultry salesman worked to keep his high heels on.

Oh, the doors are talking
Oh, the sheets are stained
A fleshy bowl of nonsense says,
"Apparently a slut's been made!"
Why must the fortune teller
always do the dirty work?

It bit the chicken
The skin foresaw it
And sultry heels worked to keep the salesman high.

Can I touch your telepathic private parts?

20   Twenty-Three Lubed Up Schizophrenics With Delusions of Grandeur (00:51)

21   Captain Gaydar It's Time to Wind Your Clock Again (01:03)

22   Priest With the Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Get Out of My Bed (00:33)

23   Pickup Truck Full of Forty Minutes (01:19)

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Di  CUNTGRINDER

 La band e l'album in questione sono un autentico capolavoro, però molto devastante e rumoroso.

 Smettiamo di cercare le banalità del death metal e smettiamola di condannare la techno... scegliamo qualcosa di originale, come questo album.