DOWN I GO
"THIS IS DISASTERCORE"
(Undergroove Records - UGCD039)

Mini-Album REVIEW

01. OH GOD, EVERYBODY'S DEAD! / SHAANXI
      EARTHQUAKE OF 1556 (2:11)
02. A WASP IN A JAR / GREAT PLAGUE
      OF LONDON 1665 (1:56) MYSPACE
03. NOT ENOUGH BUCKETS IN THE WORLD / GREAT
      FIRE OF LONDON 1666 (2:13)
04. BILLION DOLLAR BURNING COFFIN / SPACE
      SHUTTLE CHALLENGER EXPLOSION 1986
      (1:53) MYSPACE
05. REACTOR 4 / CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER
      PLANT MELTDOWN 1986 (1:30)
06. AND YOUR GRANDPARENTS (SLOWLY DIE)
      / GREAT SMOG OF LONDON 1952 (0:42)
07. LAMENT OF THE MOURNFUL SAILORS / EXXON
      VALDEZ OIL TANKER SPILL 1989 (2:02)
08. LET'S NOT MAKE BIG BALLOONS AGAIN
      / HINDENBURG AIRSHIP FIRE 1937 (2:36)
09. STICKY NIGHTMARE / BOSTON MOLASSES
      FLOOD 1919 (0:54)
10. TIME TO SELL / BLACK THURSDAY STOCK
      MARKET CRASH 1929 (0:43)
11. STAY AT HOME AND DIE / INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
      OF 1918 (3:49)
12. BIRD HIPS, LIZARD HIPS / EXTINCTION OF THE
      DINOSAURS (1:54)
13. GIGANTIC! TITANIC! / SINKING OF RMS TITANIC
      1912 (8:59)

Length:  31:22 (min:secs)
Released: 6th November, 2006

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This is the second in the infamous ‘core series of releases (the first being Dinocore and maybe there's as many as four in total) and here we find the London based band Down I Go fucking with your intellect as on this occasion they choose famous disasters as the subject, with their debut album appropriately entitled “This Is Disastercore”.

It is said that they play jazz metal but just haven’t learnt how to play the Jazz bit yet. It is said that they don’t take anything too seriously other than death itself and this they consider to be a really big deal. One thing is for sure, you will experience something a long way leftfield of what many would consider musical normality, for here you will find yourself in an aural sanatorium surrounded by lunatics partaking in feral, spazzy and psychotic progression. It’s avant-garde, abstract and intangible in the best Patton-esque traditions, taking totally off the wall songs that change direction more often than Richard Hammond in a jet car.

Here you find a macabre gathering of lyrics that somehow gel to form a commentary of disasters (often sounding like disastercore news reporting live from the event), which otherwise presents a sobering and evocative insight into some of histories most incredibly deplorable events and it’s certainly worth reading the lyrics - you will really learn something. It’s inevitable then that these songs mirror (in musical form) Python’s Batley Townswomen's Guild's re-enactment of 'The Battle of Pearl Harbour' with the vocals substituting a sort of screeching, screaming, shouting, storytelling, Reta Fairbanks sort of role (whatever you do don’t click this link) and as such mark a clandestine milestone in cerebral evolution.

This is an album for those who hunger after something a little different to the normal rock dirge, for there's very little evidence of conventional song structures or musical scales, however they do turn in the occasional killer riff that creates a mighty micro groove with almost a semblance of shape for just very short periods before dissembling back to the more normal chaos. You need to get to know this album intimately and like a bad case of ivy it will grow all over you, and once it does you will never get rid of it!

12345678910 - Rigsby  (15th March, 2008)
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Line-up:
Pete Fraser [Vocals], Alan Booth [Guitar], Marek [Bass] and Ben Standage [Drums].