Any trip to Noise Factory United’s sonic halls is a bit like falling down Alice in Wonderland’s rabbit hole and hitting every sonic oddity, musical juxtaposition, and acoustic anomaly on the way down. And when you pick yourself up, battered, bruised, and seeing stars, you are now in the perfect state of mind to listen to “Ladyhammer,” their latest single.
Approaching them from the cold light of day, the familiarity of normality just won’t cut it. You need to meet the band halfway, and such a fall, such a shift in your state of mind, is the perfect approach.
How else are you going to make sense of their Stranglers-esque, post-punk sense of brooding, driving anxiety, their dank Velvets-infused beauty, their strange New Wave factious and fizzing interludes, their understated interludes, their obscure and perhaps even obtuse prose, their…well, everything about them. You need to come at this from an altered state of mind, such as landing on your head after being dropped from reality to wonderland. It’s trippy, man!
Size matters? Not in this case, and as they skip through their anti-misogyny anthem, their celebration of brains over brawn, they remind us in no uncertain terms that armed with the right tool, the lady in question is more than a match for that other tool, the one that is the blight of her life. This is the sort of DIY we need more of in the world! Dontcha think?
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