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Black Bananas - Electric Brick Wall

Review by Noel Gardner

Black Bananas’ utter disinterest in presenting a ‘natural sound’ makes mid-Eighties ZZ Top look like, well, early-Seventies ZZ Top.»

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Black Bananas, the outfit fronted by Royal Trux's Jennifer Herrema release their second album. 'Electric Brick Wall' is an all-new trip over the top, the Jennifer Herrema sound-vision aesthetic iconic-ally realized beyond the previously known borders of the universal mind, modified to exist within the borders of human experience. The lead single 'Physical Emotions' is a dancefloor blast that our ears and minds deeply needed and 'Electric Brick Wall' solves even more problems by introducing more and harder beats, upping the sugar quotient along with the strychnine in a line of insanely hilarious new music hybrids aplenty, like the drone / crunch / ragga vibes of 'Hey Rockin' or the mirror- ballin' industrial desolation of 'Creeping The Line'. It's an age of hybrids but Black Bananas come on with hot Yankee ingenuity, true cross-breeders with a refreshing lack of values and a corresponding shortage of shame.
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