U.S.S.A.
The Spoils
Fuzz Artists (2007)
U.S.S.A. is a relatively new project consisting of Ministry's Paul Barker, Tomahawk's Duane Denison and two other guys. Two out of four guys that have had some level of fame does not make a "supergroup," a word seemingly thrown around any time a dude from one known band happens to get together with one or more dudes from another known band. But for those familiar with both artists, the collaboration between these two gentlemen should be reason enough to check this group out just the same. Their debut album, The Spoils manages to yield quite a few surprises. At first you'll be surprised at the whole D.I.Y thing of it all, a relatively small (in marketing strategies, anyway) release through seemingly not so much a label as an independent artist's collective known as Fuzz Artists. The next big surprise is the band's music. One would think a cool amalgam of industrial Ministry / Lard / Revolting Cocks mixed with the coolness of a Jesus Lizard / Tomahawk kind of a thing and you'd be half right. The latter half, that is, because U.S.S.A. sounds pretty much exactly what we'd always come to expect from Tomahawk, with the exclusion of their … Read more
The Dauntless Elite
Graft
Plan-it-X / Bombed Out (2007)
The Dauntless Elite hail from Leeds and hold the honor of being the first international Plan-it-X band. With Graft, their … Read more
Creature Feature
The Greatest Show Unearthed
Sumerian (2007)
When reviewing an album, it can be difficult to summarize thoughts and feeling elicited from the music you're listening to, … Read more
