Psyopus - Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
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Artist: PsyopusEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-02-20
Music Label: Metal Blade
Soundtracks:
- The Pig Keeper's Daughter
- 2
- Scissor F*** Paper Doll
- Whore Meets Liar
- Insects
- Imogeni's Puzzle Pt. 2
- Play Some Skynyrd
- Kill Us
- Siobhan's Song
- Happy Valentine's Day
- Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
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Free Music Review: Nothing too new, but mighty enjoyable
Hit: 4 Stars
Greatly improving on Psyopus's so-so debut Ideas of Reference, Our Puzzling Encounters Considered is a fast, grinding piece of wildly excessive noisecore, brilliantly rendered and sure to please all fans of over-the-top displays of musical madness. Criticisms of this album as one-dimensional are somewhat justified, as Psyopus do generally have the intensity pushed well past max, but I actually find the single-minded ferocity that's generally on display to be part of this album's charm. With the obvious exception of the relatively calm instrumental tracks, these guys reach a level of sonic devastation that manages to rival anything unleashed by the likes of the Dillinger Escape Plan and Converge, and they do it with a staggering, free jazz-esque level of technical skill and flair to boot. The jarring, stop/start rhythms of tracks like 2 and Whore Meets Liar are some of the most confounding and disorienting out there, combining with the unhinged-mental-patient screams of Adam Frappoli to result in a listening experience somewhat tantamount to trying to solve a calculus problem while being beaten over the head with a crowbar, while the incredibly fast and intense Insects perfectly epitomizes the everyone-soloing-at-once style as Chris Arp unleashes wave after wave of corkscrewing guitar lines and Chris Herman seemingly hits his drumkit about 45,000 times a minute. My personal favorite, Kill Us opens with a succession of crashing waves of sound, all gut-wrenching vocals and scathing guitar riffs, before a dizzying tempo change leads straight into a maelstrom of clashing instruments. Another classic, Play Some Skynrd, is mighty short at around 30 seconds, but it packs in more heaviness and sonic anarchy than many bands will manage in an entire career, with a devastating main riff early on than regretfully doesn't get repeated amid all the rapid-fire chaos. But hey, in an album where time signatures shift every few seconds, the best parts are going to give way pretty quickly, so you're better off not getting too comfortable.
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Noisier than a 50-car pile-up and more disorienting than a spin on a demonic merry-go-round, the music of Psyopus provides the listener with an endless barrage of challenging riffs and rhythms that, like much arriving to the second tier of mathcore, fails to be wholly memorable. The jarring, nightmarish guitar figures in "2" are undoubtedly impressive as is the gentle and beautiful moment of calm, "Siobhan's Song." The sheer athleticism of tracks such as "Whore Meet Liar" and unimaginatively titled "Play Some Skynyrd" is dealt in equal supply and skill. On the whole, there's enough aural action to inspire a month-long bout of insomnia as the listener tries to figure out how so many disparate but relentlessly aggressive elements are pieced together. But tricks such as these--inexplicably shifting tempos, moods, time signatures, and plainsong vocals--can't make up for the fact that Psyopus seems largely incapable of writing a straightforward and coherent song that can stir a series of diverse moods and emotions in the listener. Remove "Siobhan's Song" from the picture and Our Puzzling Encounters Considered is all dull, monochromatic rage.--Jedd BeaudoinAlternative Rock Music CDs
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