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RELEASE DATE: 2007-06-19
LABEL: Eyeball Records
TRACKLIST:
1. Imagine Nation Express
2. El Piñata De La Muerte
3. Jay Walking Backwards
4. Grandfather
5. Alright, I Admit It...It was a Whore House
6. Paper Weight Pigs
7. Sleeping with the Fishes, See?
8. Cradle in the Crater
9. The Weekly Wars
10. The Try (Thank You)
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Mongrel
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
THE REVIEW:
As spastic math metal goes, Mongrel by New Jersey’s The Number Twelve Looks Like You quickly convulses its way to the fore. But if you don’t like the style to begin with, this may not only not change your mind, but send you scrambling for clean lines and predictable turns.
Number Twelve (named after a Twilight Zone episode) may not be the first to sound like this, but as style points and technicality go, they may be the best. There’s blasts of nimble frenzy throughout, with jazzy, even disco-affected sojourns thrown in.
It’s like the sextet tried to stir in every genre they could think of in a hard-to-decipher mix, with a comprehensible blueprint hidden somewhere inside. The quaking machination of “Alright, I Admit it ... it was a Whore House” is combined with death metal vocals. There’s a Spanish inflection to the measured madness of “Paper Weight Pigs.” The sequences of lacerating thrash and muscle-tensing breakdowns on “Sleeping with the Fishes, See?” are buried beneath mounds of convulsive Julliard-like training bent on insurrection.
The chiming, fragmented beginning to “Jay Walking Backwards” is about the only part of Mongrel that casual listeners can follow. The rest of the CD is capable of making your eyes roll back in your head. The fact Number Twelve can replicate this music in concert makes it all the more unfair to us mortals.
BY: Wade Coggeshall (WadeTheBlade) on 2007-08-07
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