Darren Smallman gets loud and then even louder on Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin, the new album by one-man trash punk band Dez Dare. Amidst walls of distorted guitar, arcane arcade beeps and purss, mangled drum computers, he puts up a very public fight with his mental issues and trying to deal with the fact that a proper understanding what makes him tick by the public at large is a long way off. That being said Smallman has been successful in carving his own niche for a special kind of freak-out garage rock that is damn catchy, making him an underground favourite among hardcore music fans.
Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin is a rollercoaster ride without any of the nasty side-effects (nauseau, dizziness and the like). He is shouting at the heavens, calling in physics as well as science-fiction to make sense of it all. It is an album that is bursting at the seems with fuzz and reverb, and it sounds like it might fall apart at any second. Smallman is walking the thin line between structured mayhem and chaos, but it is worth the risk. The best art offers a challenge for both the artist and the public.
Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin will be released on March 1 via God Unknown Records (two colour blob vinyl with a 12 page comic book illustrated by Mike Keane, CD, digital).
Tracks:- Got a Fire In My Socket
- Matter Vs Matter
- 10,000 Monkeys + An Argument With Time
- No One Wants to Hear it
- Gotta Cold Feeling
- Entangled Entropy
- Call My City, Don't Call My Telephone
- Josephine Says Explode
- Schrödinger's Apocalypse
- The Elasticity Of Knowing
- A Billion Voices Screaming, Hello Void!
- 04/12 The Tin Music and Arts, Coventry (w/ Hula Girls + Trojan Pony)
- 04/13 The Dark Horse, Birmingham (w/ Exotic Pets + Empty Cut)
- 04/17 The Prince Albert, Brighton (w/ Frixon Klatt + YOU&TH)
- 04/19 Fish Factory Art Space, Falmouth (w/ Ubiquitous Meh! + Broken Arrow)
- 04/20 Underground, Plymouth (w/ Ubiquitous Meh! + Broken Arrow)
- 04/25 The Deco, Portsmouth (w/ The Usual Boys + guests)
- 04/26 The Cavendish Arms, London (w/ Luiz Bruno, Little Storping In-The-Swuffs)
More dates in the UK, Europe and Australia TBA.
HCTF review of Critical Mind Dump.
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