Track Listing 1. Sadame 2. Ikon 3. Mira 4. Outside Gentiles Door 5. Mainliner 6. Pop Sicle 7. (Untitled) - (hidden tracks)
| Details | | Producer: | Asahito Najo | | Distributor: | Redeye Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Live | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes High Rise: Asahito Nanjo (vocals, bass); Munehiro Narita (guitar); Yuro Ujie (drums). Tokyo's High Rise embarrasses timid Western conceptions of the "power trio." Munehiro Narita peels off dizzying, daredevil "motorcycle guitar" riffs saturated in squalling, squealing distortion and wailing wah-wah. Asahito Nanjo lays into his fuzzy basslines with rail-splitting enthusiasm and vocalizes with equal swagger. Yuro Ujiie beats the skins off his kit. Come to think of it, High Rise is an ironic name for a unit so dead-set on a landscape-leveling demolition course. LIVE places you in harm's way of High Rise's destructive path. Japanese neo-psychedelia favors unbridled, Blue Cheer-like intensity over high fidelity, so differences in sound quality between High Rise's lo-fi studio sets and LIVE are negligible. What you hear, however, is the High Rise no studio could possibly tame. Thoroughly juiced and crackling with energy, the threesome rips into the scathing "Ikon" like Hades unleashed and tears the psychedelic stuffing out of "Mainliner," "Outside Gentiles," and "Pop Sicle"--each a Stooges-worthy classic. "Door" swaggers dangerously, with Ujiie swingin' it like a hanged man. "Mira" takes on the hell-bent heft of an out-of-control locomotive as Narita and Nanjo throw fits of frantic fret raking and Ujiie goes Animal-and-then-some on the drums. This is as galvanizing as modern rock gets.
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