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Status: Single
City: Austin
State: TEXAS
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/27/2003
Friday, June 09, 2006 

Category: Life
From Spill Magazine:
WARNING: May cause extreme giddiness and/or agitation, the urge to rip ones hair out or someone elses, severe heart palpitations and most defiantly the urge to cause immediate destruction. If you are taking any medications for the heart, mind, body or soul, listen to this album on low or not at all. Otherwise, proceed with caution. Wow, is all I can say and keep saying while I listen to this album, a second for the foursome who are heavy on keyboards, synthesizers and polka dots. Their sound is defiantly odd with a pungent taste of electronica on overload, especially heard on the first track, Deciduous Prophet and the third, Caught On Tape. The former sounds like a sped-up version of the South Park theme song with a little Tetris thrown in for good (?) measure. After awhile, the hyper-mania grows on you and while you want to do something wild and illegal, youre sitting there trying figure out if these guys are putting you on by how odd they seem, or if they just are. It seems like a clever business ploy because weirder is better, but youll never know because who are they to tell you. And for that, I like them; when they arent inducing seizures in listeners and dodging questions. For instance, after searching online for an answer I found their Myspace page and asked them precisely why they were banned from Canada during their 2005 tour in May, for one whole year. Zoms Frenchman, the plastic drummer of the group responded with, "Mounties have it out for us. We're just that good." Whatever, dude.

From InSite Magazine:
Zom Zoms Yellow Rainbow is a bizarre ride to the far side, and appropriately brief at under 28 minutes. At first listen, I couldnt help but compare it to a personal favorite, 2004s One Brain. But I listened again, and again...and I have a hunch this will become the highlight and turning point in the career of a band you will either love or hate. The band has evolved significantly since their debut CD in 2003. According to the vocalist Zom Philmapster, a retired encyclopedia salesman, Before [Lumbobas Tube] we were a pretend band. These two pizza delivery guys who share a strikingly similar name continued to revel in absurdity, and it is especially auspicious in Yellow Rainbow. Deciduous Prophet starts the ride somewhere over the rainbow at a fast pace, and makes environmental extremists appear reserved in behavior. The album leads to paranoia-inducing loops with twisted tracks like Caught on Tape and Strange Floating Woolen Jaw. The title track is disturbingly bleak lyrical imagery set to a frenetic polka dotted dance beat: Forty-four minutes in the sun/your retina will come undone, and Visions fading, hungers gaining, health degrading... death is waiting. Zom Philmpasters explosive Kabuki Theatre meets hideous melodrama vocals are still jawdropping, and his Devo(tional) tatttooed cousin Phil Philpmapster plunks out some of the quirkiest notes Ive ever heard. Comparisons to SnakeFinger, The Residents, and of course Devo will inevitably be made, but this foursome is proving to be more than a fad. You can purchase this zolocoaster ride at local record stores like End of an Ear or Waterloo Records, or @ tubezomzoms.com. (Deans List) DW

From ADD Reviews
More wonderful synth-heavy absurdity from the Zom Zoms. Their name upside down spells Swoz Woz.
Rating:3.5
reviewed by laze

From: Aiding & Abetting
Zom Zoms Yellow Rainbow (Omega Point)
Utterly lunatic (not to mention manic) electronic pop. Zom Zoms don't vary from the formula they've set down in the past: Play warped melodies very fast and hope the faux-heroic vocals can keep up. Lots and lots of fun.

From: The Chicken Fish Speaks
Zom Zoms - Yellow Rainbow - CD
(Omega Point Records) There's a very strong Devo influence on this synth intensive band. There's also a hint of the cult band Residents in the songs as well. The release starts off good enough with synth work that recalls earlier XBXRX coupled with a Devo lyric and vocal style. My biggest problem is that as the CD progresses the band starts to focus too much on the quirkiness of their style and vocals instead of writing good songs. This ended up turning the band into nothing more than a novelty act.
-- Mite (2006)
Noelle

 
Yeah, that's what i've always thought-like Fugazi with costumes and imagination. where's my pizza? sideways they spell Zom Zoms in Japanese.
 
Posted by Noelle on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 1:46 AM
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