Global Speaker Fisting’s cover image
comes on like an exaggerated Freddie Kruger - which
is something of an achievement in itself. The image
prompts expectations about the music which are roundly
fulfilled, but the thought also occurs that if the packaging
had been different so too might its reception have been.
Schirach’s website describes the release thus:
'The Gangster of DSP™ (digital signal processing)
is back with a new full length album entitled: "Global
Speaker Fisting": Set to stir up Grandma's
Urinary Track Infection'. Schirach does seem to have
a sense of humour, unfortunately it is a joke that has
been explored and hammered to death long ago. Schirach
as Tourettes-ridden imp licking his lips with a forked
tongue, Schirach as greedy troll grasping hungrily at
the listener’s knees: sound familiar? Just as
the imagery is an exaggerated reading of the folk-devil
aspects of Aphex Twin
circa Come To Daddy / Windowlicker,
so too is the music a hyperactively spastic conflation
of the tics and tropes of Mr
R.D. James.
Although the whole thing is fairly enjoyable in a headache-inducing
one-pass sort of a way, by presenting a parody of a
cartoon its content proves overly-recursive and ultimately
redundant. Schirach proffers no new horizons, just the
all too familiar sound of a hamster cage being rattled.
Global Speaker Fisting is surely set to be
the latest soundtrack to teenagers locked in their rooms
playing Half Life / Quake / Unreal
Tournament (delete as appropriate) or doing nefarious
things on their PCs.
Colin Buttimer
2/5 |
