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If you've been paying attention, you probably know that the PXL are no strangers to bad press. We are one divisive band, I guess! But this review, posted today on Absolutepunk.net, is one particularly outstanding piece:
http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=767802
Pegasuses-XL - Electro Agitators
Reviewed by: Julia Conny (12/30/08)
Pegasuses-XL - Electro Agitators
Release Date: January 27th, 2009
Record Label: Ernest Jenning Record Co.
On Electro Agitators, Pegasuses-XL combine their first three self-released EPs into one messy conglomerate. One messy, abrasive, sampling synth punk disaster zone. One messy, spazzing Beastie Boys cheese grater. It's a carry on from their 2008 debut, a full-length titled The Antiphon, and it's almost exactly what you expect it would and wouldn't be.
On the same token, the cast of character is a deep, expected/unexpected bag of goodies. Vocal duties from Jeff Rosenstock from Bomb The Music Industry! are frantic, made to startle and occasionally irrelevant in the heavy layers of synth, keyboard, distortion and static. When they're there, they're there, squealing and quacking like BTMI! but utterly unleashed. Similar trails of thought go for the other three of the pack, Mark Dale (Disband), Jeff Tobias (We Versus the Shark) and Joel Hatstat (Cinemechanica), so that all of Electro Agitators is a venting of hallucinogenic yearnings. This shit can hurt your brain.
And it does hurt my brain. My temples flare from the over-stimulation. "Run the Gauntlet", the second track of 17, is an introduction to the overload and a smorgasbord of synth-types. "Pixilated Flowers" rumbles in with a WWII radio sample and a deep metallic organ flavor. Overtop, Rosenstock spits and raps. I kinda get it. There is a severe lack of melody and organization on Electro Agitators, which has to do with both the band's genetic make-up and that the release is actually three EPs forced to make home as one, but it's not all pain to the ears. "Panzerfaust!" is actually kind of pretty, "Theme To Athfest" is a fresh throw to nineties hip-hop, although the deconstruction towards the end is more inedible chaos. Ultimately, it has moments.
While it's given an excuse, Electro Agitators is underdeveloped and low on meaning. The overall album is tough to consume without being taken aback for at least the first half, and with mindfucks like "New Domestic Paradigm", well, good luck.
Wow! Jeff Rosenstock wasn't even in the band when we recorded those EPs!
7:15 AM
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