[.ca] Teeny Shiny

we will, we will rock you...:
so melt banana, noisy but polite, trashy but cute as little buttons. its unbelievable that the lovely yasuko (singist) can appear so demure offstage and so frightening onstage doing her convulsion/ATTACK!!!! thing. teeny shiny then, new (ish)album.If you don't know MB then don't start here. you'll probobly find it impenetrable, whatever angle you come at it from. those who do know them, probobly own this already. it has a really weird poppy quality to it, like you'll find little flashes of it coming to you when your not really thinking of anything. live is MBs home, and this is their least 'live' album. it may be just me, but theres less of the time changes that make you think are they making this all up as they go along, meaning it could fit in with a lot of 'straight' grindcore (think dillinger escape plan. which is a shame, as MB are far more exciting than that. //so, if you know 'em, you own it. if you don't, pick up mxbx, and then tell everyone you know that they are one of the bestest bands in the whole wide world. and if they play in your town/city/country/neighbouring continent, sell your parents for a ticket. Yes, that good.

genius:
at the moment i only have this and scratch n stich , both are excellnt. The musicainship on this is on another level , awesome , totally original. Agatas guitar is totally nuts!! tom morellos use of the whammy pedal seems tame compared to Agata!! yakos vocals are rad too.buy it!

Where are you:
Melt Banana are one of those bands that I saw live once and was completely hooked. My jaw just dropped and I couldn't wait to line up and buy all their records. With "Teeny Shiny" they seem to be taking more a more pop driven direction. Although the pure speed and attack of their music stays the same they seem to have more structure and solid songwriting. One more thing: Agata is this generations Jimi Hendrix and should be widely acknoledged as such.

Short review of one song on this album.:
"Lost in Mirror" (on this album) is, perhaps, the best song ever in the history of recorded music. Ok? Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Mr. Robinson

GENIUS!!!:
The unfettered, brain-grindingly screechy hardcore of Melt Banana marks them as one of the most unique and exciting bands in operation today. For those not familiar, Melt Banana operate within a terminally insane mode of punk-noise delirium that is both cute and confrontational, and which adopts the musical nonsense of screeching guitar mayhem, pummelling drum assaults, and arrestingly fluid bass distortion as its preferred template. The musicianship is utterly startling, the discipline and fluidity beyond all reasonable comprehension. The freakouts and transient noise-blasts of previous albums are still there, of course, but here refined to a comparitively short track count of 11 songs, all infused with a distinctly poppier whiff (and healthier running time) than ever before. Though, of course, any suggestion that the drum'n'bass-influenced noise blasts of "Free The Bee", or the scratchy, 300bpm hardcore of "Cub, Not Cube" mark 'Teeny Shiny' as Melt Banana's flagship foray into mainstream punk territory should be quashed right now. This is freakishly energetic music, noise-spazz incarnate designed to induce in its audience either wretched headaches and vomiting, or nothing other than jumpy enthusiasm of the most frenzied, fired-up kind. Make your choice, I've made mine = GENIUS!!!

• Free the Bee
• Flash Cube, or Eyeball
• Lost in Mirror
• First Contact to Planet Q
• Warp, Back Spin
• Third Attack
• Cub, Not Cube
• Flip and Hit
• Bright Splat (Red Point, Black Dot)
• Skit Closes, Windy
• Moon Flavor