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Absurdum: Demo VI
As the laundry list of bands with quirky names goes on, here is one of the few bands that lives up to its name. As you can tell from the Latin reference in the moniker, this is one band that guarantees not to take itself too seriously, yet this three-song demo is delightfully complex. This North-Carolina three-piece would like to introduce itself to the world as a technology-friendly band. For starters, the demo we received has heaps of multimedia content, yet the artwork is a bit drab. Very German. Very Gary Numan. Very cool, but we must dismiss their "Computer Uber Alles" ethos for the simple fact that it takes too much effort to slide the disc into my PC when I'm already trying to master several tasks at once. Perhaps that's the thing of it. This is a demo that commands the full attention of the listener. There are hundreds of records released each week that could very easily be considered "background music," and although these three songs run into one another almost to a fault, this is the sort of demo one must take with care. The listener must not rush to conclusions in comparisons. It is easy to do so, however, especially with "N-Dimensional Hyper-volume which sounds like Devo or Man or Astroman?! before even listening to it. The simple joy of the instrumental number is that it represents the band's influences without blatantly copping one style or another. For example, halfway through the track, there is a saxophone freakout moment a la James White and the Blacks. The album does remind me of the Contortions mostly, but the whole No-Wave comparison loses its validity when you consider that No-Wave was a reaction to Post-Punk and New Wave. Reductio ad Absurdum plays what they feel inside, not what a particular musical counter-culture decides for them.
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