Well, it’s safe to say Whatever Brains goes through LEVELS. As “STOXX (OR ATHLETICS)” sounds like five tracks in one, it draws from a breathtaking variety of bands and musicians, including (maybe) Mike Patton vocal-spanning (??). Not saying the sings SOUNDS like Patton, but he must’ve read Mike’s book on originality in vocal implementation, for sure. And these electronics are as if they took tones from Radiohead, but fucked ‘em up like Wolf Eyes, and then produced them via Kevin Drumm. Atop of all that, the fluidity of the song itself sounds so cut up and choppy, but composed around these breaks, that it seems to never stops (in a good way). As if this were just an album teaser, yet it’s all here in one length of “STOXX (OR ATHLETICS),” thus proving Whatever Brains — no matter how thrown off you feel about the name — has got their shit together.
Actually, they’ve their shit together so much, one of the fellahs from Whatever Brains hit TMT up personally, and had this little bit to say: “We have a double 12-inch coming out on Sorry State Records. One 12-inch is a four-song EP and the other is a rock opera based on the story of the Lykov family in Russia.” A.k.a. too sick. They even had an interview on Noisey that’s worth scoping!
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