With their new EP, Hot Nerds have unleashed another blast of the sort of belligerent vigour not seen since the dissolution of their experimental math-punk forefathers, Arab on Radar, dd/mm/yyyy, Daughters and the Blood Brothers. If mention of that influence foursome compels you to spontaneously secrete joy like it does this reviewer, Generic Plans For A New Blunder is precisely the music you've been craving.
The only trouble with this tantalizing taste of gleefully aggressive mania is how damn short it is; these five tracks of sonically frayed and whimsically dissonant riffs clock in at just over eight minutes. Thankfully, and in no small part to Alia Jyawook's frantic Moog bass lines — which run like a toddler standing in for Tony Montana's nose at the end of Scarface, rather than simply power-walk all over the keyboard — Generic Plans is so crammed with infectious ideas that it's ridiculously re-listenable. And that'll have to do until Hot Nerds decide to dish out another dose.
(Three One G)The only trouble with this tantalizing taste of gleefully aggressive mania is how damn short it is; these five tracks of sonically frayed and whimsically dissonant riffs clock in at just over eight minutes. Thankfully, and in no small part to Alia Jyawook's frantic Moog bass lines — which run like a toddler standing in for Tony Montana's nose at the end of Scarface, rather than simply power-walk all over the keyboard — Generic Plans is so crammed with infectious ideas that it's ridiculously re-listenable. And that'll have to do until Hot Nerds decide to dish out another dose.
