Tojo Yamamoto – Turning Face!

 

 

Tojo Yamamoto – Turning Face!
Forbidden Place Records - 2025
Rock, Noise, Punk, Kraut, Core
Rated: the Madman doesn't rate...

Tojo Yamamoto play noise rock/post-hardcore - their own tag of "dancey noise rock" does not do justice to the explosion of power, aggression and raw slabs of sonic destruction that emerge when the play button is pressed. Dark rumbling bass which sounds like it is played through a distortion pedal or just turned up fucking loud mixes with the pounding drums to produce the platform from which the fuzzed up, on the edge-of-constant-feedback guitars can riff off. Ah man, the riffs in the songs are groove ridden monsters that make me want to break things while laughing like a maniac. Such evil joy and wanton glee are in the tunes - they lodge deep in your brain and make other music seem dull and insipid. Crooning, shouting, yelling - the vocals sound like David Yow performing under the influence of un-tested drugs, ranting about self loathing with the world and maybe oneself. The entire sound is deep, sludgey but with the uncomplicated song passages that contains all I love about noise rock. So much denseness is contained in these 6 tracks that when this album stops, the silence seems almost deafening.

(Written by Tony Maim)

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