Beats: dropbunny – IO review
When I was
asked if I could review this album, I instantly laughed at the name. Alright, I’ve
had my rant about terrible band names but this one is actually hilarious which
makes it awesome! I have no idea why I laughed so much but I did.
Anyway,
dropbunny is a seven-piece metal band from Melbourne, Australia that formed in
2009 with members Xero & John Barrymore recording their first album, “Hypothesis”
with the aid of session drummer Matt Leiber. After six months, they’d added a
permanent guitarist and began performing live. If they’d have distributed their
album through more mainstream channels, it would’ve been at #50 in the ARIA
charts which is bloody impressive for a first album, especially as they were
self-promoting!
I’d never
heard dropbunny before, so I wasn’t quite knowing what to expect... I really
love getting sent an album having not heard the band previously.
The first
track, Plummet, starts out with
static noise and a nice, heavy bassline which isn’t dissimilar to that associated
with nu-metal, before some drumming and weird heavy whispering vocals join the
party. They soon invite some guitars in, along with some more aggressive
nu-death (I made that term up) vocals. I really love the bassline in this and
it continues through the track. It’s a great track to kick off the album with.
Notable
tracks include Jumped which is an
acoustic track but gets electric and just bizarre about half way through; it’s
very mellow and really reminds me of tool which is never a bad thing.
Gimpman Cometh is a very interesting one
and I can only presume that the title of the song is a pun on Charlie’s play ‘The
Nightman Cometh’ from one of my favourite T.V. shows, It’s Always Sunny In
Philadelphia. That was my precise thought as soon as I read the song title,
anyway. It has a nice, acoustic intro with yet more weird, narrative vocals
before some clean singing that sounds almost out of tune (but works) comes in
along with some drumming. The song progresses with a static bassline and aggressive
shouting vocals. It has a really weird atmosphere to it that I can’t quite
describe.
All in all,
I’m enjoying this album. It’s totally fucking bizarre and just all over the
place. One of the pleasures of reviewing music is getting sent all kinds of
crazy stuff and this has to be at the top of my list of weird metal; in fact,
if there was a sub-genre called ‘weird metal’ these guys would be the
champions.
Dropbunny – IO is out on Monday 6th August and it will fuck your
shit up.
You can
download their first album, Hypothesis
for free here: dropbunny.bandcamp.com
Website: http://www.dropbunny.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dropbunny
Nate
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