The Mourning Sickness-CD Review
by John Christen
With their fourth full-length release Gets in a Ruction, the Mourning Sickness display their uncanny, unorthodox, and creative take on progressive-punk. Filled with eccentric, witty, odd word patterns in the style of Primus or Beck, the power trio whisks you into their diametric, slightly askew, reality.
“Snow Wimps,” opens the album, awakening your cerebral cortex with a backwoods riff that rips into thrash before settling on a piercing, crisp, clean, electric guitar. “Beezlebufo,” tells the tale of a gigantic prehistoric frog discovered in Madagascar, circa 2007, that was a “foot in a half long, maybe ten pounds.” “The Devil Frog,” dates back to the age of Dinosaurs. “Richard,” is a pretty little ditty with a wonderful banjo solo, wedged between the fortuitous circumstances of the given name Dick.
Tranquilly composed, musically inclined, rhythmically diverse, guitars pulsate and mesh, blending into driving drums. ”Distaste for Food and an Urge to Vomit,” speaks of anorexia, bulimia, and the pressures of glitz and glamour in modern society. Giftedly talented interludes fill “Only Good News Show,” “Bubby Peak,” and “A Study in Tyranny.” “Unyoked is the Best!” invokes the anti-marriage musings of Anna Bijns, a 16th Century Flemish Nun.
Released by Enjoy Your Symptom Records, Gets in a Ruction, pushes boundaries with ten bubble bursting, inconceivably thought provoking compilations.
Online: themourningsickness.com
Category: A-Sides
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