What & who the hell are the Wrists? Mutant-wave for the last days of man on earth. Pinheads from Nowhere, East Texas burn through seven originals of lo-fi hyper-aggressive noise-pop. Fuck a lead guitar - all you get from the Wrists is two pissed off bass destroyers offset with minimal Casio flavor. What if Joy Division were retarded 'roid-raging pro wrestlers recording on 11 in a bedroom? There's a party in my fucking head.
- John Digiovanni (Beerland DJ Extroidinare)
The Wrists from Longview Texas use 2 bass guitars and keyboards and drums. This is their first screaching demo cdr with 7 songs an each comes with a pin. Recorded in Paul's bedroom, real bedroom rock. Raw harsh vocals and lo-fi sound, but it's held together with the even keyboard lines which I guess you could say act as a guitar. Reminds me of the Phantom Limbs or a guy-Subtonix minus the dark goth and add pop pleasure and garage punk fever. If you are the type who can listen through lo fi to hear good stuff, you can extract the great stuff on this cdr, cause the song structure is really cool.
- Alicja Trout (Lost Sounds)
Killer demos from this Texas curiosity of a band. Two bass players, drums, and casio get mixed up into an explosive yet lo-fi and heady mess. There's a dark, perhaps bleak post-punky angle they're working from, but not as seriously gothic as the Lost Sounds sometimes got. They throw all sorts of influences in the trash can that you really can't rattle off immediately, kind of how Human Eye throw everything along with the kitchen sink at you, but you can't really pin anything specific on them. The recordings are definitely rough, but I think the jumbling of sounds add some muscle to the mess. Fairly raw vox, and plenty of low end offset the casio nicely, which is kind of subliminal at times, just buzzing in the background like an insect, but effective when it grabs the lead. Choppy and rhythmic at the same time, I think they deserve some Le Shok comparison as well, or perhaps the Units would be a more appropriate parallel. Eight songs on this thing, all of which are likable. They do a synthed-up "I'm A Bug" that doesn't bore, and "Livin' in the Eyeball" is seriously infectious, and easily one of my favorite tunes of recent mention. This CD-R is better than a lot of the crap vinyl being released these days. Someone do a record with them quick.
- Rich (Terminal-Boredom)
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