It may be a little self-indulgent to post reviews as bulletins, but I thought this one stood out. All to often record reviews (in general) are the result of a disinterested party meeting a deadline... creativity and substance usually take a holiday.

Well John-Michael Bond, I tip my hat to you sir on your creative, entertaining,  and inventive review...

http://www.mammothpress.com/index.php?area=readreview&pid=1667

Reviewed by: John-Michael Bond [Tue, February 03, 2009 @ 12:28:44 PM]

Unbeknownst to most of the modern world Ric Ocasek and Quincy Jones share a mutual love of hardcore, a love forbidden by the strict and unyielding rules that hang over the heads of pop icons. After Jones finished producing Michael Jackson’s Thriller in 1982 he joined up with Ocasek, who was on a break between touring in support of Shake It Up with The Cars and the band recording the follow up Heartbreak City, and they laid down a brief four song set of hardcore songs. Hardcore songs played by their own rules.

The resulting project, known as Mose Giganticus’s Commander! 7” was lost for twenty six years has the two artists tried to come to terms with the weirdness and brilliance of what they’d created. To hide the true origins of the release, and thus ensure their legacy in the close minded music community the two artists dropped the album off in West Pennsylvania at the home of one Matt Garfield. Garfield, realizing the brilliance before him, took up the moniker of Mose Giganticus, pressed Commander! in conjuncture with Cottage Records, and took to touring the states to spread the gospel of keyboards and hardcore shouts.

The title track of the EP bounces with a timeless two step rhythm while laying down the chugging bass line with a keyboard and the occasional robot voice box vocal, and the record just gets weirder from there, but weirder in all the best ways. It took a combination of two brilliant minds (Ric and Quincy) to mold this into something beyond the billions of laptop punks polluting the world right now. Of course Cottage Records won’t confirm or deny the story told here today, so you’ll have to take my word for it. But even if you don’t buy the legend, you need to buy this record. Your dance parties deserve it.

7 out of 10
RIYL: The Cars, Thriller, or Bane.