Band : Usurp Synapse
Album : Disinformation Fix
Release Year : 2004
Genre : Screamo | Emo Violence
Release Year : 2004
Genre : Screamo | Emo Violence
Tracklist :
Disc 1 :
1 Mexidudes
2 Beard Of Remoras
3 Modulator/Demodulator
4 Misc. Arrangement Of Black Market Parts
5 Muscle Of The Wolf
6 Pathogen Gimmick
7 Giga Please!
8 Take Advantage Of The Free Headlock
9 Brundlefly
10 Clicks
11 Good Luck With Your Book
12 Wrist, Meet Razor
13 Maybe You Should Kill Yourself
14 You Thought You Were Special, You Were Wrong
15 Just Do It!
16 Untitled
17 Untitled
18 Untitled
19 Untitled
20 I'm A Fufufucking Vavavampire
21 What Would You Say If I Said I Love You
22 I Was Born With A Hard-On
23 Upenya
24 The Main Ingredient
25 Come And Get It Mole
26 Doin' The Backwards
27 We Shoot From The Hip
28 Live It! Live It!
29 Here's $100 Seniorita
30 Keith Sweat
31 Murder Was The Case They Gave Me
32 Born Different
Disc 2 :
33 I Know A Guy Who Likes Dynamite
34 Going Down With Both Guns Blazin'
35 Truth About Pyecraft
36 Talk To Tucker
37 Robot Insurance
38 Fuck You, Mankind
39 Meryl Streep Is A Fucking Liar
40 Pete Rose's Homerun Derby
41 When Good Pets Go Bad
42 Lil' Guys
43 Rottweiler Death
44 Hairdo 2000 Ad
45 This City's A Grid
46 Oh...You Are Sick
47 Bloody Hardhat
48 Don't Be Cruel
49 Reach Out And Touch Me With That Emo Hand
50 A Circle Of Thank-You's
51 Carebear Stare
52 My Spidey Sense In Going Fucking Nuts
53 Robocop As A Fragrance
54 Segueway Into Dryhumping
55 Infestation Of Richard Pryor
56 Art Carney Wannabe Motherfucker
57 Deadly Handshake, Friendly Milkshake
58 Energy Condom
59 Carying A Ferrari Out Of A Pumpkin
60 Extra Guys Screaming
This is the complete discography from this caustic and abrasive band that I suppose would be best referred to as "screamo" with a little bit of extra melody and metal on occasion. Included are six new songs that I believe were recorded specifically for this release, the band's self-titled CD EP, the "Witching Hour" 6", several compilation appearances, and their splits with Mara Akate, Hassan I Sabbah, Jerome's Dream, Index for Potential Suicide, Neil Perry, Rep Seki, and Emotion Zero. The discs are full of short tracks (generally less than two minutes) crammed with lots of frantic rhythms and layered screaming/shouting vocals, tons of wacky guitar interaction with various noisy textures and dissonant chords, a sample here and there, some goofy keyboards in the background on sparse occasions (very "hip"... sarcasm), etc. It's really nothing new. I don't have much of an opinion about it. It's not overtly annoying per se, but it's rare for anything to really strike me as above average.
The six new tracks are a bit more honed and subtly melodic, which I like, but the older tracks are rawer in the recording department, and can be a bit more grindingly in your face in tempo and delivery. That being said, I'm mildly confused as to why this band received so many opportunities to release split records and such... but then again, I'm not all that into this whole scene, so I guess there are lots of kids with tight clothes and bad haircuts that eat this shit for breakfast. Most of the recordings are rugged but tolerable, with fairly even mixes and dry tones that have a lot of dirty textures and varying degrees of thickness. Of course some of the newer tracks sound cripser, while some of the older pieces are sloppier and harder to handle... but I'm generally okay with the production quality. The discs come in a simple package - a foldout digipack that's almost entirely black with some green flatlines running across it, and then there's some text listing the various band lineups, and a onecard insert that lists the tracks and what releases they came from. That's it. I guess it would be a pain in the ass to try and include lyrics for 60 songs (61 are actually present, but only 60 are listed). I don't know, if you ask me, there a ton of other bands out there that deserve double CD discographies more than Usurp Synapse, but if you're into this stuff I guess this would be a cool collection. If I try to be impartial about it, my main complaint with this collection is that it's not informative enough to be much of a retrospective document of the band, but at least all of the songs are here...
1 Mexidudes
2 Beard Of Remoras
3 Modulator/Demodulator
4 Misc. Arrangement Of Black Market Parts
5 Muscle Of The Wolf
6 Pathogen Gimmick
7 Giga Please!
8 Take Advantage Of The Free Headlock
9 Brundlefly
10 Clicks
11 Good Luck With Your Book
12 Wrist, Meet Razor
13 Maybe You Should Kill Yourself
14 You Thought You Were Special, You Were Wrong
15 Just Do It!
16 Untitled
17 Untitled
18 Untitled
19 Untitled
20 I'm A Fufufucking Vavavampire
21 What Would You Say If I Said I Love You
22 I Was Born With A Hard-On
23 Upenya
24 The Main Ingredient
25 Come And Get It Mole
26 Doin' The Backwards
27 We Shoot From The Hip
28 Live It! Live It!
29 Here's $100 Seniorita
30 Keith Sweat
31 Murder Was The Case They Gave Me
32 Born Different
Disc 2 :
33 I Know A Guy Who Likes Dynamite
34 Going Down With Both Guns Blazin'
35 Truth About Pyecraft
36 Talk To Tucker
37 Robot Insurance
38 Fuck You, Mankind
39 Meryl Streep Is A Fucking Liar
40 Pete Rose's Homerun Derby
41 When Good Pets Go Bad
42 Lil' Guys
43 Rottweiler Death
44 Hairdo 2000 Ad
45 This City's A Grid
46 Oh...You Are Sick
47 Bloody Hardhat
48 Don't Be Cruel
49 Reach Out And Touch Me With That Emo Hand
50 A Circle Of Thank-You's
51 Carebear Stare
52 My Spidey Sense In Going Fucking Nuts
53 Robocop As A Fragrance
54 Segueway Into Dryhumping
55 Infestation Of Richard Pryor
56 Art Carney Wannabe Motherfucker
57 Deadly Handshake, Friendly Milkshake
58 Energy Condom
59 Carying A Ferrari Out Of A Pumpkin
60 Extra Guys Screaming
This is the complete discography from this caustic and abrasive band that I suppose would be best referred to as "screamo" with a little bit of extra melody and metal on occasion. Included are six new songs that I believe were recorded specifically for this release, the band's self-titled CD EP, the "Witching Hour" 6", several compilation appearances, and their splits with Mara Akate, Hassan I Sabbah, Jerome's Dream, Index for Potential Suicide, Neil Perry, Rep Seki, and Emotion Zero. The discs are full of short tracks (generally less than two minutes) crammed with lots of frantic rhythms and layered screaming/shouting vocals, tons of wacky guitar interaction with various noisy textures and dissonant chords, a sample here and there, some goofy keyboards in the background on sparse occasions (very "hip"... sarcasm), etc. It's really nothing new. I don't have much of an opinion about it. It's not overtly annoying per se, but it's rare for anything to really strike me as above average.
The six new tracks are a bit more honed and subtly melodic, which I like, but the older tracks are rawer in the recording department, and can be a bit more grindingly in your face in tempo and delivery. That being said, I'm mildly confused as to why this band received so many opportunities to release split records and such... but then again, I'm not all that into this whole scene, so I guess there are lots of kids with tight clothes and bad haircuts that eat this shit for breakfast. Most of the recordings are rugged but tolerable, with fairly even mixes and dry tones that have a lot of dirty textures and varying degrees of thickness. Of course some of the newer tracks sound cripser, while some of the older pieces are sloppier and harder to handle... but I'm generally okay with the production quality. The discs come in a simple package - a foldout digipack that's almost entirely black with some green flatlines running across it, and then there's some text listing the various band lineups, and a onecard insert that lists the tracks and what releases they came from. That's it. I guess it would be a pain in the ass to try and include lyrics for 60 songs (61 are actually present, but only 60 are listed). I don't know, if you ask me, there a ton of other bands out there that deserve double CD discographies more than Usurp Synapse, but if you're into this stuff I guess this would be a cool collection. If I try to be impartial about it, my main complaint with this collection is that it's not informative enough to be much of a retrospective document of the band, but at least all of the songs are here...
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