Darth Vegas
Brainwashing For
Dirty Minds
Romeo Records /
Newmarket Music
Every now and then something lands on your desk which,
when you put it on, sends you down the rabbit hole, seemingly with no way out –
buy the ticket, take the ride is an apt sentiment on how to handle these
oddball situations, and never has it been more apt than when listening to
Sydney-based Darth Vegas’ second effort, Brainwashing
For Dirty Minds.
To be honest, this record could be just as easily
reviewed in a surf mag, a metal mag or a movie mag as it could be in Rhythms, such is the myriad styles and
sounds found within. Creeping and
crawling, it melds genres with reckless abandon – just when you get used to a
bit of surf twang, they throw a death metal riff in there – seemingly with no
rhyme nor reason, and yet it fits together eerily well.
I’m not saying I like Brainwashing For Dirty Minds, I’m not saying I don’t like it – it’s
a musical journey, for wont of a better phrase, but it is a journey, one that leaves you somewhat worn out by album’s end,
a little lost, wandering around like you just woke up from an epic sleepwalk
and you’ve found yourself in K-Mart in your pyjamas. With blood dripping down your neck and a bottle of absinthe
in your back pocket. It’s
psychedelic b-movie soundtracks mixed with horror and surf – I’ll leave the
rest up to you.
Samuel J. Fell
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