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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
To listen to Lightning Bolt is to whack yourself about the head with a large blunt object, whilst sitting in your Mother's tumble-dryer as it progresses through its most sickeningly quick ultra-spins, as it sits in a rocket blasting off into space, leaving the exploding remains of ruined earth behind it.
In other words, you could describe it as being extremely indescribable. You can sit and smile manically as you stumble though your first listen, trying to take everything in but only realising you're in some kind of schitzo-dream, and your friends are looking at you like you're a mentalist. Or on the other hand, you can put it on and just not bear it at all. It can be absolutely atrocious and one of the most grating things in the world, ever. Or what's left of it.
The problem with Lightning Bolt is that their sound is almost primarily tailored for their live performances, and reproducing the atmosphere on CD has proven to be a difficult, clumsy affair. Their sound is aggressive and lively and enthralling, but if you do not enjoy the anarchy of audio havoc that the duo creates, stick with something a little more conventional.
But they are doing something different, and you can't ask for any more than that.
In other words, you could describe it as being extremely indescribable. You can sit and smile manically as you stumble though your first listen, trying to take everything in but only realising you're in some kind of schitzo-dream, and your friends are looking at you like you're a mentalist. Or on the other hand, you can put it on and just not bear it at all. It can be absolutely atrocious and one of the most grating things in the world, ever. Or what's left of it.
The problem with Lightning Bolt is that their sound is almost primarily tailored for their live performances, and reproducing the atmosphere on CD has proven to be a difficult, clumsy affair. Their sound is aggressive and lively and enthralling, but if you do not enjoy the anarchy of audio havoc that the duo creates, stick with something a little more conventional.
But they are doing something different, and you can't ask for any more than that.
17 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
According to NME they are the "last great underground band"
Ignore that nonsense theres plenty of great underground bands that can't be arsed to be mainstream and loads more still to come, Black Dice, Melt Banana they're all there. Although don't ignore Hypermagic mountain because, well quite frankly you can't ignore it. You'll know what I mean.
Lightning bolt are unlike anything you've heard, don't count Death From Above 1979, (or Politeing Bolt as they are known by Lightning Bolt fans) thats a completely different kettle of fish, Lightning Bolt produce the most brutal hyper fast piece of noise you will ever experience, this is largely because of some sort of untapped hyperspeed that Brian Chippendale the drummer can wield about in his drumkit. And considering this is their 4th album together they have been about a bit and they are very good at it.
The other Brian Gibson, who plays a 300 foot long bass apprantly, also produces a noise worthly of Gods. An almightly sound that sounds like it strangling 500 buffalos while falling down a large flight of stairs, not only that but it goes to moments of utter 800 mph virtusoity like in Dead Cowboy it defies belief that two people can play this fast and intense. With all the Whammey Pedal octave shifting and weird noise making equal to that of Matt Bellamy going on you start to believe that he could have a 300 for long bass.
Speaking of Muse, they have stressed their love for lightning bolt, and have somehow got the term 'splonk' metal for it, not sure about that but I would even try to put some sort of badge on this band, they'll wriggle out of it seconds.
If you've seen Muse on a recent tour you will seen Chris and Dom doing a Lightning Bolt cover from Lightning bolts last album Wonderful Rainbow, lightning bolt fans weren't happy, but then never mind, Anyway my point is possibly the only band you could compare lightning bolt to is Muse, not in in any heavy way, but in ideas and musical accomplishment they are both from an another planet, certainly, its art, but it rocks like nothing you've heard for ages.
Riff Wraiths is one track which shows how punishing Chippendales drums can be, you can't figure out exactly what the rythm is at first, and you start to wonder how the hell he can produce something so manic. Vocals are relagated to just noise through a delay pedal, tapped to Chippendales mouth.
I know I've said hyper a few times but I'm sorry thats the limits of language at this point in time, lightning bolt are beyond language and description, theres not many albums that leave you tired after one listen and still leave you wanting more at the same time.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
What's not to like about this?
25 Oct 2005
Format:Audio CD
The latest release from Lightning Bolt offers everything you've come to expect from the band: the noisiest and most aggressive sounding bass guitar in the business, spastic drumming that fills every sonic nook and cranny and devastating riffs that could wake a person from a coma.
Essentially the guys have managed to maintain their trademark sound, so hardcore fans need not fear. Where this album differs from previous Lightning Blot efforts is in it's production, which feels better. Not only that, but it's denser, at times creating the illusion of a thick unpenetrable wall of sound.
Where this album differs from noise rock acts in general is in it's attitude. Simply put, Hypermagic Mountain has a child-like exuberance about it. With song titles like "2 Morro Morro Land" and "Captain Caveman" it's comparable to a couple of kindergartners hopped up on sugar with an endless supply of energy. Brian Gibson and Brian Chippendale sound like two kids happy to bang away on their instruments just because it's fun. The result is an album that hits the listener at full blast, never slows down, never gets boring or predictable, and is jubilant enough to put a smile on your face.
Essentially the guys have managed to maintain their trademark sound, so hardcore fans need not fear. Where this album differs from previous Lightning Blot efforts is in it's production, which feels better. Not only that, but it's denser, at times creating the illusion of a thick unpenetrable wall of sound.
Where this album differs from noise rock acts in general is in it's attitude. Simply put, Hypermagic Mountain has a child-like exuberance about it. With song titles like "2 Morro Morro Land" and "Captain Caveman" it's comparable to a couple of kindergartners hopped up on sugar with an endless supply of energy. Brian Gibson and Brian Chippendale sound like two kids happy to bang away on their instruments just because it's fun. The result is an album that hits the listener at full blast, never slows down, never gets boring or predictable, and is jubilant enough to put a smile on your face.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
more elemental
9 Jan 2007
Format:Audio CD
For many who come across this page, you might be largely unfamiliar with Lightning Bolt's work. These poetic descriptions of "a chainsaw through pudding meets a baseball bat and trash can" are more than a bit misleading.
At its heart, Lightning Bolt is a constant jam: Brian Gibson's fuzzed out, tuned up bass lines over Brian Chippendale's frantic, yet fluid drumming. It isn't just cluttered noise, there is rhythm and melody involved. What you won't find are sing along choruses, just monstrous sounds from unorthodox setups. The bass is tuned up to Cello tuning (in fifths, starting at C) and the drummer doesn't play on a hi hat (he uses a large ride cymbal's bell and a "ping" cymbal). Occasionally (on this album, "Dead Cowboy" is one of the few...) Chippendale sings through a phone receiver mounted in a mask (allows him to play).
While not as "accessible" as their last album, it does a better job of conveying their "magic". This album was done in a more "jam econo" (to borrow a term from the Minutemen) format: recorded on a 2-track DAT in a home studio.
The album's few lyrics touch a little on the political, instead of the tongue-and-cheek allusions of their earlier releases (a combination of the two has basically fueled other noise-rock bands, like The Blood Brothers). If you can understand it, there is a bit of GW Bush skewering... but that sort of brings up an undeniable point about the band: this is the true heartbeat of punk.
It's not a haircut, or 1-4-5 song structures that are co-opted by the mainstream... if anyone forgot other, more idealistic bands (Refused, Fugazi), Lightning Bolt is a bit refreshing. They have been together over ten years and continue to get better and just rock out. They haven't been hemmed in by scene kids or given an inch in artistic vision. Ultimately, the music is as much art as it is music: you don't paint to get famous, you do it because you have to ("...never trust an artist that tells you he has a choice...").
Lightning Bolt goes for the guts, loud and abrasive. If you are at least familiar with the bigger art/noise bands that have come into indie vogue (Test Icicles, The Blood Brothers, and to a lesser extent, DFA) then Lightning Bolt is worth checking out.
If any of this piques your interest, I implore you to buy this album (support the band). At the end of the day, Lightning Bolt is just two guys who are good at what they do, stick to their guns like few others, and do it all with very little ego (that is something unique in music).
At its heart, Lightning Bolt is a constant jam: Brian Gibson's fuzzed out, tuned up bass lines over Brian Chippendale's frantic, yet fluid drumming. It isn't just cluttered noise, there is rhythm and melody involved. What you won't find are sing along choruses, just monstrous sounds from unorthodox setups. The bass is tuned up to Cello tuning (in fifths, starting at C) and the drummer doesn't play on a hi hat (he uses a large ride cymbal's bell and a "ping" cymbal). Occasionally (on this album, "Dead Cowboy" is one of the few...) Chippendale sings through a phone receiver mounted in a mask (allows him to play).
While not as "accessible" as their last album, it does a better job of conveying their "magic". This album was done in a more "jam econo" (to borrow a term from the Minutemen) format: recorded on a 2-track DAT in a home studio.
The album's few lyrics touch a little on the political, instead of the tongue-and-cheek allusions of their earlier releases (a combination of the two has basically fueled other noise-rock bands, like The Blood Brothers). If you can understand it, there is a bit of GW Bush skewering... but that sort of brings up an undeniable point about the band: this is the true heartbeat of punk.
It's not a haircut, or 1-4-5 song structures that are co-opted by the mainstream... if anyone forgot other, more idealistic bands (Refused, Fugazi), Lightning Bolt is a bit refreshing. They have been together over ten years and continue to get better and just rock out. They haven't been hemmed in by scene kids or given an inch in artistic vision. Ultimately, the music is as much art as it is music: you don't paint to get famous, you do it because you have to ("...never trust an artist that tells you he has a choice...").
Lightning Bolt goes for the guts, loud and abrasive. If you are at least familiar with the bigger art/noise bands that have come into indie vogue (Test Icicles, The Blood Brothers, and to a lesser extent, DFA) then Lightning Bolt is worth checking out.
If any of this piques your interest, I implore you to buy this album (support the band). At the end of the day, Lightning Bolt is just two guys who are good at what they do, stick to their guns like few others, and do it all with very little ego (that is something unique in music).
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Like GOD
23 Oct 2005
Format:Audio CD
I don't care if the other 11 tracks sounded like Christopher Cross as long as it had Megaghost on it I'd give it 5 stars still. It attacks your mind, your everyday thinking, it kills brain cells and normal sensitivity to anything else you hear, all will be sweeter after a trip to Hypermagic Mountain.
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