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Melt-Banana - Teen Shiny

Details

Format: Vinyl
Catalog: 3
Rel. Date: 12/12/2000
UPC: 655035200316

Teen Shiny
Artist: Melt-Banana
Format: Vinyl
New: Not currently in stock
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. Free the Bee
2. Flash Cube, or Eyeball
3. Lost in Mirror
4. First Contact to Planet Q
5. Warp, Back Spin
6. Third Attack
7. Cub, Not Cube
8. Flip and Hit
9. Bright Splat (Red Point, Black Dot)
10. Skit Closes, Windy
11. Moon Flavor

More Info:

Melt-Banana describe their third self-released album as "pop and nice," a claim to which numerous incredulous subscribers to the band's mailing list have replied, "No pop!" and "Extreme, please!" This angular Pythagorean-core HC quartet supposes that the words "pop" and "nice" have slightly different nuances those outside their native Japan are failing to see; perhaps they mean "pop" not in the Celine Dion sense, but in the Andy Warhol sense, "nice" not as in smashing a bunch of garbage together and expecting fans to swallow it out of habit, but as in well-crafted, hairball mania. Even as the band acknowledges that Teeny Shiny is punk, noisy, screeching, and fast, they steadfastly maintain that it is pop and nice for them. Though a mad scientist from 2788 has given vocalist / lyricist Yako a heart the size of a lion's (engorged with futuristic steroids) and her voice goes spitting and whizzing above it all as 5,000 volts surge through her skinny torso; and given that the mad scientist has screwed with guitarist Agata's brain so that his guitar-playing resembles a synth and two turntables; and taking into account the Melt-Banana rhythm section's ability to keep up with a machine gun demonstration without breaking a sweat - conditions that all apply to Teeny Shiny, fictionalized or not - they're not backing down from the assertion that their new album is pop and nice. Sometimes you just gotta trust people.
        
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