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Because
I love the fuzz I love this fucked up slab of metallic
noise. Were my ears no accostumed to being violated like
this, I wouldn’t stand a chance against this album.
Because that’s what happens when you listen to
Ganjahovahdose, you actually have to fight it. You won’t
beat it. No way. The point is you can’t rest in bed
while listening to it. You can’t relax to it, nor listen
to it on your way to work. This will make you go
haywire, it will have you drilling holes on the wall and
then introducing your wee wee in them. By the time you
are regaled with the acid bath that is “The Ape Caca
Lips” your brains will look like the contents of a can of
Spam. As a matter of fact, Ganjahovahdose will probably
make you a little dumber.
It’s a
shame, because the album starts off stronger than strong.
“PassstheFissst” reminded me of a more noise friendly version of
the loudest garage rock records put out by Dead Beat and In the
Red Records. Which is the same thing as saying that past the
deafening stridence, the angular spirit and the hectic
construction of the music and the musical quality of White Mice is evident. The soul of
their sound is intense, the beat is driving and their brains
have been burned already. To me, it is not an issue of
intensity, which White Mice are a hell of a lot, but of how
intense can you be before turning into simply annoying. Which
sadly, Ganjahovahdose does here and there.
More is
introduced later on. “The Hard On of Edam” sounds like it was
written by the Butthole Surfers while on Mars. White Mice add
the space factor and for a second the record improves. It is
hard to listen to this album and not notice how the production
impairs some of its better factors. Musically, the album has a
lot to offer. The bass playing is damn flawless with notes that
twist and bend like a pretzel. And similar kudos could be
delivered to drummer Phallusturd Scrowleak. So it’s more of an
issue of ‘the sum of its parts’. The strange pairing of this
sludge noise with vocals that could fit in a black metal record
make Ganjahovahdose quite the test to endure. And challenging
music does not always deal the winning hand.
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