SOFY MAJOR "Total Dump"
SOFY MAJOR
“Total Dump”
French noiseniks Sofy Major have been motoring along pretty
reliably the last few years. How much you get out of these guys depends on how
much you like the scratchy noise rock scene of the 90’s…bands like Butthole
Surfers, early Helmet, Jesus Lizard, etc. If you pine for the days of AmRep and
Touch and Go , you will likely be over the moon with “Total Dump”. Metalheads
may find it less enthralling.
This album definitely has more of a delirious poppy flavor
than last album “Waste”, which was more
of a blunt force trauma. The vocals are pretty much clean indie rock with no
growls and some of the vocal hooks are right out of the alt-pop cookbook, like
on “Cream It” and “The Jerk”. But the bass is super grimy and the guitar
squeals, squonks and shrieks. It’s not heavy in the metal sense but distorted
guitar plays a huge part in Sofy Major’s tuneage and there’s nothing soft or
tasteful sounding here. When a band has song titles like “Shiny Happy Asshole”
and “Franky Butthole”, they are not exactly aiming at radio rotation.
Sometimes the music is perversely catchy, like the title
track and “Tumorama” At other times, like the last two songs “Panamarama” and
“The Longest Yard”, it just comes across as annoying bordering on excruciating.
So once again, if 90’s alt-noise is your cup of tea, Sofy Major is a can’t
miss. As for me, I might relax with some old Morbid Angel….
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