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28/08/07 21:14
"Say
you’ve just been fired at work, you come home
to find your wife having a threesome with the
neighbour and his dog and take all three of them out
with a machete just minutes before the police come
round for a random dead body search.
You’d be rather miffed, right? You want to scream from every orifice until your blood boils and you don’t relent. This feeling is the backbone of Allergo’s debut self-titled EP, mixed in well with three other layers of uncompromising noise to create music to vent to.
Is it perfect? No, far from it. To the untrained ear, it’s an unfathomable blend of unstructured guitars, sporadic drum beats, nonsensical lyrics (‘so why don’t we take the long cut home? And watch the black sails, as steeples catch falling acrobats, is this doomsday?) and disorganised pre-pubescent vocals that, together, transcend any logic of musical structure.
But there is more to this band than you will realise on first listen. They have taken the tidal wave of noise that lofted The Dillinger Escape Plan stand onto their perch and have incited a collision with the frantic fury of Martyr AD, Johnny Truant and Blood Has Been Shed. ‘High Risk Manoeuvre’ and especially ‘This Time… I think I’ve Gone Too Far’ is proof, for those who need it, that Allergo are more than a rip off of the emocore/mathcore/spazzcore/corecore (whatever you want to call it) fad.
For yet further proof that Allergo are trying to progress a relatively immobile genre, two songs of acoustic guitars and violins will close off the release – an unexpected indication of maturity that suggests bigger things are headed the way of this Scottish quartet if they can incorporate this into future material.
There are far too many moments of mediocrity here for the band to encounter those bigger things just yet, but, with time on their side at an average age of 18 and the ability and vision to progress their sound, you would be advised to keep half an eye on Allergo in the coming years.
:twisted :twisted :twisted out of 5"
Adam Starkey
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You’d be rather miffed, right? You want to scream from every orifice until your blood boils and you don’t relent. This feeling is the backbone of Allergo’s debut self-titled EP, mixed in well with three other layers of uncompromising noise to create music to vent to.
Is it perfect? No, far from it. To the untrained ear, it’s an unfathomable blend of unstructured guitars, sporadic drum beats, nonsensical lyrics (‘so why don’t we take the long cut home? And watch the black sails, as steeples catch falling acrobats, is this doomsday?) and disorganised pre-pubescent vocals that, together, transcend any logic of musical structure.
But there is more to this band than you will realise on first listen. They have taken the tidal wave of noise that lofted The Dillinger Escape Plan stand onto their perch and have incited a collision with the frantic fury of Martyr AD, Johnny Truant and Blood Has Been Shed. ‘High Risk Manoeuvre’ and especially ‘This Time… I think I’ve Gone Too Far’ is proof, for those who need it, that Allergo are more than a rip off of the emocore/mathcore/spazzcore/corecore (whatever you want to call it) fad.
For yet further proof that Allergo are trying to progress a relatively immobile genre, two songs of acoustic guitars and violins will close off the release – an unexpected indication of maturity that suggests bigger things are headed the way of this Scottish quartet if they can incorporate this into future material.
There are far too many moments of mediocrity here for the band to encounter those bigger things just yet, but, with time on their side at an average age of 18 and the ability and vision to progress their sound, you would be advised to keep half an eye on Allergo in the coming years.
:twisted :twisted :twisted out of 5"
Adam Starkey
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