Hairline Ego Trip is the latest record from Australian underground Legend Dez Dare (Darren Smallman) who was known for being in among other bands BATTLE WORLDWIDE, Low Transit Industries, Thee Vinyl Creatures, The Sound Platform, Warped. He's been based in Brighton since 2010 and turn the volume up and let him blast your brains now.
This bursts out of the speakers with Dumb Dumb Dumb with what sounds like the same drum machine that Metal Urbain used and sort of a similar approach musically as the lyrics tackle modern concerns of what's gone wrong and how many of the responses have been Dumb Dumb Dumb.
Conspiracy, O'Conspiracy has a psyche rock guitar line stomping drums and ever so slightly paranoid conspiracy theory vocals and lyrics while sounding quite sleazy and grimy.
King + Queen Monstrosity has a welter of nasty sounding amps and guitar wailing at us against spare drums for the intro before Dez tells us what he thinks of Monarchy as a system, I think he wants to break down the walls with howling feedback and distortion, so turn this right up and deafen them out of office.
My My Medulla is about the most cerebral fuzz laden rock stomper on the album, the sort of song that needs to be heard deafeningly loud to leave your ears ringing for a couple of days afterwards after you've all shook along to this monster of a tune.
Sandy's Gonna Try and bludgeon your brain with noisy biker rock, with a Monster Magnet on an acid rampage feel to it that goes quite Crystallized Movements on the long instrumental freak out.
Break My Vice is a bit of a chant along psyche rock break down and screed against the madness of the world we are trying to navigate our way through.
Crowned By Catastrophe is slightly slower as the Catastrophe of our times and how they have changed Dez's world and he tries to find a way through the malaise.
Goodbye Autonomy takes a sort of Stingray style tune with dis-embodied female vocals that are a bit like China singing Tokyo Airport in the Metal Boys but with even stranger noises and stuff going on.
Tractor Beam, Shitstorm closes this album with weird keyboards, buzzing guitars, chanted vocals as you try to get out of the Tractor Beam and avoid another awful Shitstorm that seems to be headed your way and like most of this album it sums up the paranoid madness of the times we live in.
This album need to be heard loud enough for your walls to be shaking find out more at www.dezdare.com www.dezdare.bandcamp.com www.facebook.com/dezdareriffs
