YONA-KIT TRANSPORTS JIM AND TWO OF HIS TRUSTED COLLABORATORS OF THE TIME (THYMME JONES OF CHEER-ACCIDENT AND DARIN GRAY OF LOTS OF BANDS) INTO A BAND SITUATION WITH FELLOW CULT ARTIST AND EX-ZENI GEVA FRONTMAN KAZUYUKI KISHINO WHO YOU MIGHT KNOW AS KK NULL. THEY ALSO HAD A COOL LOGO.
JIM WOULD HAVE RECORDED THE FIRST US MAPLE RECORD AROUND THIS TIME AND I GUESS AS A SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON THEY'RE NOT A MILLION MILES APART. IT'S UNUSUAL BY THE STANDARDS OF BIG ROCK OF 1994/5 BUT NOT ESPECIALLY WEIRD BY VAGUELY MATHY/UNDERGROUND STUFF. IN FACT THEY SOUND MORE LIKE THE PROTO-US MAPLE BAND SHORTY, ONLY WITH MAYBE A LITTLE LESS CHARISMA AND MORE ATMOSPHERE.
THEY DIDN'T ALL LIVE NEAR EACH OTHER AND WROTE BY MAIL AND IT KIND OF SHOWS. MOST TUNES ARE JUST VAMPS AROUND ONE SPINDLY AND SINEWY RIFF. GETS A BIT DISCORDANT AND ESTRANGED THEN SOMETIMES VEERS INTO PLEASANTNESS BUT KEEPS ROCKIN' THROUGHOUT. THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE FUN LIVE. ONE OF MELT BANANA SHOUTS INSCRUTABLY. ALBINI BEHIND THE DESK. IF THAT'S YOUR AESTHETIC THEN HERE'S ONE FOR YOU.
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