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Kong
Snake Magnet Brew Records

Article written by Matt H - Aug 13, 2009

Kong - Songs

A muscular but occasionally jazz-edged rhythm, adorned with jabbing guitars, sees Kong ploughing a similar furrow to instrumental cousins from across the Pennines, That Fucking Tank. It’s not just the shout of a vocal that sets them apart though, the hardcore riffery often has a more solid, proper metal thunder to it.

It’s largely the more straightforward stuff that impresses most. The buggering about with rhythms can go too far. Wet Your Knives in particular takes an age of stuttering false starts to get to the actual point (well a minute and a half, but that’s plenty to have anyone shouting “get on with it”). Nevertheless the way Good Graphics forms itself out of the sounds of modem data transfer (or if you’re my age, the sound of a Spectrum game loading) is impressively done – especially for an idea that you might have assumed would work better on paper than in practice. As is often the case with this sort of thing, it all comes across as a bit earnest and po-faced (as far as you can tell, I suppose it’s possible they’re screaming their way through the Tom O’Connor joke book in parts). But there’s something endearing about that. We all need an internal soundtrack to glowering silently, but meaningfully, in the corner sometimes. And Kong fit the bill nicely.

Links:
http://wwwbrewrecords.net
http://www.myspace.com/kongdom

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