Born To Run #2

Cows- Effete and Impudent Snobs

Last.fm
Buy it (Not rly has been discontinued lolo)

Let me have this horrible, horrible music.

1. Memorial

2. Dirty Leg

3. Big Mickey

4. Preyed on

5. Immigrant Song

6. Whitey in the Woodpile

7. Nancy Boy Cocaine Whore Blues

8. Cartoon Corral

9. Little Bit

10. Put Me Down

11. Sittin' Around

No, I haven't heard of them before either. I'm not really sure why, after one listen, i'm listening to this again. It's disgusting.
Screw MSTRKRFT, if a dirty bassline is what you're looking for, and I mean, dirty, then look no further.

Effete and Impudent Snobs is a 35 minute sonic rape of an album from Minneapolis noise-rock dudes, Cows. First track Memorial snarls in with a greasy bassline and welcomes you to the hellish musical pit you'll be dwelling in for the next half an hour or so, should you see this album out to the end. Which you probably won't.
The first half of this album squeals along with barely distinguishable guitar melody, yet there's still a sense of growing darkness. I've never heard something which I imagine to sound so much like hell itself, Glasvegas jokes aside. The tension eases up slightly on The Emigrant Song, and I mean lighten up comparitively. It still sounds like you've been given a two and a half minute long song to listen to while the entire world laughs at you behind your back. Whitey in the Woodpile, (presumably written about Kevin Brown) is a brief refrain of silliness, before the barrel of laughs of Nancy Boy Cocaine Whore Blues. This is horrible, brain frying stuff, and truely would be an apt punishment for a lifetime of sin.

Strangely, however, I like this album. I meant everything I said, it is horrible........but sometimes that hits the spot. I would reccomend giving the band a listen on last.fm before downloading this feral beast. I mentioned not seeing it through to the end, and whilst I did, it's doubtful that the average listener will. All too often the temptation to listen to something.....with some sort of discernable tune, kicks in. This is a filthy album though, reccomended for when you're not feeling quite yet human after the night before. Or for those with implosive tempers; this is our soundtrack to finally cracking.

Hardly essential, but enjoyable filth. Bit like Skins.