Dead Neanderthals - Incantations LPDead Neanderthals Incantations LP The artfully colorful flourish that graces Dutch experimental duo Dead Neanderthals' new album belies a deep, dark secret. Incantations, whose art was carefully crafted and designed by Stefan Thanneur (ex Chaos Echoes), showcases yet another side to synthesist Otto Kokke and drummer Rene Aquarius' long running project. Gone are the days of their hyperblasting New Wave of Dutch Heavy Jazz, foregoing saxophone

Some of it features electronics that are intense and busy but they're overlong showing little signs of sound progression in its composition

" - Antti Luukkanen

Dropdead - Dropdead 1993 lp

Songs written on the cold hearted plains of Skaraborg

" He's not warning you that "it's time to meet Jamaicans

and Cisneros on guitars

” It’s an object lesson in the limits of critical speculation (or maybe just in the limits of my own critical speculations)

these sets aimed for the jugular as they confounded

But the punch line was that the Minutemen had used all this fancy window dressing on songs that weren't all that different from what they'd been doing all along -- "The Cheerleaders" and "King of the Hill" are typically intelligent

Ladies and Gents

Now when this group of friends get together

with the vocals sounding pretty much the same