Listening to this record for the first time, you sit and think to yourself: "Hmm, I wonder what that was?!" Listening to it again will make you go: "Hmm, electronics, semi-distorted vocals, not bad at all!" Listening to it for the third time will leave you astonished and overwhelmed: "Just how do they manage to put all those exciting, spine-tingling sounds on a single CD?"
Such is the nature of Lost Marbles And Exploded Evidence. It's not an easy listen. But then again, it is all too facile to just put it on the stereo, groove away to the playful bass-line of the first track, and slowly forget about the whole thing. Until you reach the sixth track, and these minimal, pumped-to-the-verge-of-overdriven drums hit you up side the head and make you go right back to the start and give it a closer inspection. Or you could show the album some repect and give it your full attention right from the beginning!
LMAEE (or LAMEE if you're an ignorant) is a multi-faceted collection of relatively short musical explorations, and though it is not avant-garde or definable as traditional experimental music, its mix of primal rhytmic body-manipulation (parts of it even makes you wanna bop your head!), slacker-like vocals of both female and male persuasion (sometimes even in harmony, lo and behold!), weird tremulating sounds and semi-noisy soundscapes all adds up to quite a worthwhile experience. This is electrorock/pop as it always should be. Definitely lives up to its title!
Listen here.
