The self-titled album from Giles, the new project from former Prayer For Cleansing and current Between the Buried and Me vocalist Tommy Rogers, is a nine-song play list comprised of short bursts of Nintendo 64-like beats with breathy, whiny lyrics.
For example, "Desk Seeking Spades" sounds like Giles allowed the dancing, backwards-talking midget from "Twin Peaks" to sing his broken, nearly undecipherable words with a New Age electronica beat.
Few songs crest the two-and-a-half minute mark, a delightful and reassuring surprise.
This album might be appropriate for an alternative techno club if the proprietor were into taking risks and the clubbers were under the influence of at least four alcoholic beverages.
Refreshingly, "Replay" contains intriguing lyrics such as "Happy apple come a little closer." The beat is slower and less erratic, as Rogers's voice fades with a hypnotic ebb and flow. However, this effect quickly mutates into what sounds like a warbling pack of barking dogs that inexplicably maintains the beat.
Overall Giles' self-titled debut album is a spaced-out rush of piercing sounds that accost the ear. It is available for sale April 19 from Victory Records.
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