reassessing scissor shock
 

I'll bump this thread sometime in the future when this album actually comes out.. but..

Hey, there's a new scissor shock ep coming out on dfrp soon.. not sure when.. but soon.. that's nkondi dude's label! It's probably the best thing we've recorded.. here's an early review courtesy of damno te guy!:
http://noisear.blogspot.com/2007/08/...-skeleton.html
Scissor Shock - Tease The Skeleton


Artist: Scissor Shock
Release: Tease The Skeleton
Label: dollfullofrivets
Year: 2007
Format: CDr
Tracks: 8
TRT: 30:29

This is the lastest EP soon be released on dollfullofrivets. If your familiar with Adam Cooley and Scissor Shock you'll know it's not your average sytle of noise. There's a lot of going on's in this release and here's a short mention of the typs of sounds: Skipping CD sounds, vocal screaming, odd guitar playing, weird ass drums, Mario Brothers jumping for a coin?, buzzing, saxophone, lots of various samples, etc. This is free-rock-noise for sure. No structure and just plain fun! "Melting The Sun" is probably my favorite track on here as it's a total Free-jazz type track, in an odd way. I kinda wish the whole disc sounded like this track as it seemed to be the one with the most purpose. "Dissolved Stomach Calculations" is fairly insteresting as well. Great acid type sound using guitar tapping mixed with some decent drums. Overall this disc is a decent listen and something new for sure. If your a fan of Hobby Knife then you'll like this one. Lots of fun and a ton of sounds!

oh yeah, there are still copies of the mars travolta left if anyone's interested (they're going for about $500 on ebay now).

New song on http://www.myspace.com/scissorshock

it's probably the most complex song I've ever written.. well, maybe not, but it's up there. marimbas and shit.

damn I wish I could listen to it now. but jesus stickers destroyed my ear plugs. or they went bad while listening to them...

Awesome.

You gotta listen later, Al. It's a stereophonic treat! haha.

I think my computer threw up.

Nice work!

Thanks guys. Trivia!.. It's the first time I've ever played piano and marimba on a Scissor Shock song.

FISHBASKET (via discogs):
Okay, Adam Cooley has got to be the least predictable musician I have ever heard. I quite highly doubt that, without any prior knowledge, I would know that any two albums bearing his name were actually by the same guy. He and (whenever applicable) his band are capable of a wide range of styles and sounds, from Kid606 contracting the Rage virus to Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band and Volvox having a stand-off. Even in the course of a recording itself, Cooley's not afraid to whip the listener about on the end of the rope before pulling them up to safety, just to push 'em off so he can do it again later on. But he will not drop you, don't worry.
Scissor Shock is capable of conjuring up all kinds of moods, from lunatic catharsis to unsteady calm, but they have only one steadily followed modus operandi: Each album should differ markedly from the next. There is no clear-cut "sound" to describe them. You would have to hear this audio Calvinball for yourself and draw your own conclusions, and there in itself lies the fun.

http://www.myspace.com/scissorshock

"cat planet woman"

it's my most complex and fun track since.. uhm.. the song psychic existentialist... which i've finished and put a new, updated version of on the myspace!

....It's the damndest thing, after toiling away at this band for 7 long, busy years, I have gotten about 15-20 emails in 2010 from various people wanting to actually buy some OOP releases and whatnot. Reviewers started reviewing albums I mailed them literally years ago too... labels are finally putting out releases that have sat with them for years... It seems like when I stopped caring, that's when people started taking notice of my work. One time, years ago, I mailed 150 promo cd-r's out to every zine and website known to man, and got 3 responses. I used to play shows all the time, release stuff all the time, really work superhard. Now, many years later, working about 1% as hard as I used to, people are starting to care... Pretty fucking weird.

Anyway, new album is half done, it's a doozy, so watch for it.

whoa

That's awesome. I can't wait to get rich as fuck off all my SS cd-rs. kidding of course.

Computer's sound is awful. I'll have to put it on a cd and listen later.

it's because they think you're this guy

I've only heard one Scissor Shock song, the cover of Blue Mamba. Great song, barely sounds like Blue Mamba.

Haha thanks, that song's alright, kinda embarassing in retrospect, we did it all in about 30 minutes. Alan liked it though!

That's neat. The song mostly makes me think of Deerhoof's cover of My Pal Foot Foot which sounds equally unlike the original.

But I have to amend my statement. I've also remember hearing Harmonizing With The Refrigerator and Demon, Detuned. I remember singling those out because I enjoyed the titles.

Both were severely inaccessible which is the germ of the charm. They flirt with quarter written riffs that are left behind almost immediately after their introduction but find resurgance at unseemly intervals. There's an almost amnesiac(not the album) quality attached, like the music is trying to remember what it is. The drums don't even attempt rhythm but would rather feign the idea under thinly veiled absurdity. It sounds Beefheart in theory but something else in execution. Scissor Shock in execution I suppose. The noise glitch thing at the end of Harmonizing reminds me of the middle of level one on Monster Party on the NES, when all of the happy plants and sky violently and painfully start shifting in an out of reality and are replaced with blood gushing skulls and deformed statues. It's almost irrelevant whether I like or dislike these songs. The result is the same.

Haha thanks for the mini review. That's really interesting stuff haha.

We don't sound anything like those songs anymore (they're 2 years old).

by Incentive, Newest Members 04/26/10 17:44:13

If I could think of one quote, from an important American historical figure, that could help describe the insanity that is Scissor Shock, it would have to be, "I just made a giant masterpiece printed all over the greatest world newspaper nerds."

This is not music for everyone. It's brutal, yet charming. Violent, yet tranquil. I find myself in a schizophrenic world every time I listen to a Scissor Shock release. I like that a band can mess with my entire world, shatter everything that I believe in, yet still make me satisfied and happy. These are truly the current gods of progressive music, not only in the midwest, but anywhere.

http://www.myspace.com/scissorshock .. new song "KNIFE IN THE HEAD OF ALL FALSE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS". most complex ever!