Radio Massacre International Blacker CDR / 4 tracks / 58.02 mins Play Sample:   56K Dialup   Broadband Download Sample:   500K   1.5Mb (Excerpt from track(s) 'This Is Scenery?')

'Dudly' gets underway with an ominous bass line, mellotron and all manner of eerie Electronic Effects. Guitar cries out like a tortured soul. It's all rather meditative but also disturbing. Almost half the album is taken up with the next track 'This is Scenery?'. We drift on the back of rather windy / stormy effects. Things then become all spooky again as strange cosmic shimmers dart around bass twangs. There is a rather sparse feel to it all. Mangled growling effects increase the unease. Moody mellotron and strange scraping noises seem to take us to new areas of the nightmare then a wonderful heavy sequence blasts forward changing the feel completely. The tron returns but this time the effect is more ethereal, providing the perfect base over which pulsations travel, guitar giving a little extra colour. The sequence morphs this way and that, a bass one joining the first in a very 'Rubycon' type way. The sequences start to decay only for another ball breaking bass one to take over the central role before being swamped in a vast wave of mellotron choir. More lines of pulsations emerge before subsiding once more leaving some moody atmospherics to finish.

'No Bones' is a rather subtle short track; some gentle looped guitar licks echoing into the distance, only accompanied by a scattering of percussion. Other guitar embellishments arrive augmenting the loop. The mellotron returns for 'Enormodome' then things get very strange with bizarre vocal utterances and all sorts of clattering percussion and gloopy electronics. In the fourth minute normality returns. A high register sequence and lovely low rumbling rhythm set the pace, a bass heavy sequence soon coming to join them. Gary adds an aggressive edge with some lead flourishes over the top. Yet more sequences arrive- awesome brooding menacing stuff. We return to the darkness to finish. RMI at their very electronic best. On one final note, Spinal Tap fans should enjoy the artwork! (DL)

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