Melt Banana: Teen Shiny

Melt-Banana describe their third self-released album as pop and nice a claim to which numerous incredulous subscribers to the bands 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 lions engorged with futuristic steroids and her voice goes spitting and whizzing above it all as 5000 volts surge through her skinny torso and given that the mad scientist has screwed with guitarist Agatas brain so that his guitar-playing resembles a synth and two turntables and taking into account the Melt-Banana rhythm sections ability to keep up with a machine gun demonstration without breaking a sweat - conditions that all apply to Teeny Shiny fictionalized or not - theyre not backing down from the assertion that their new album is pop and nice. Sometimes you just gotta trust people.

1.1 Free the Bee
1.2 Flash Cube or Eyeball
1.3 Lost in Mirror
1.4 First Contact to Planet Q
1.5 Warp Back Spin
1.6 Third Attack
1.7 Cub Not Cube
1.8 Flip and Hit
1.9 Bright Splat Red Point Black Dot
1.10 Skit Closes Windy
1.11 Moon Flavor


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