Mexican border trio Maniqui Lazer conjure absent-minded thoughts of a poorer-quality Chinese Stars, an nth-generation Blood Brothers, early Errors’ two-fingered keyboard-riff robotic disco, or the faintest shell of the Liars with their ideas sucked out – and make you wish they’d inherited more of their substance than just their moves boiled down into 90-second one-trick shots.
Instead, their debut’s too full of unfinished half-songs that frustratingly refuse to develop their one-at-a-time ideas. 16 tracks and interludes clocking in at 23 minutes, their disposability’s almost their saving grace, but doesn’t prevent them tiring quickly. The first half especially is such a largely unexceptional bundle of screamed, throatshredding vocals that soon get tedious and rudimentary punk-funk beats knocked out with little craft or care or substance, you’d be forgiven for giving up on this early doors.
Yet then about two-thirds of the way through they bare their teeth, match their brevity with a greater sharpness, and some shards of promise appear, 'Sonic Sex' the first and one of the best as it creeps along nicely. And as they take a straight-up punkier route, the no-brainer keyboard riffs and grumpy bass grooves nearly hit the spot: ‘Kill The Maniquis’ and ‘Teenage Mutant’ are reassuringly mean, spiky and pissed-off, ‘Tom Selleck Moustache’ worth acknowledging for the title alone, and in ‘You Me And The Lazer Gun’ they save two of their best minutes ‘til the very end.
But you wonder why they didn’t stick the handful of decent tracks here onto a cracking 7” and save us the trouble. You can't doubt their enthusiasm and lustre, but the majority’s all a bit too will-this-do and directionless; more annoying than abrasively satisfying, sadly, or worth even half-heartedly shaking your arse to more than a couple times.
source :http://www.new-noise.net
Saturday, August 30, 2008
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Vice Germany 8 de 10
Si alguien entiende avisenos....
aqui esta el link
MANIQUI LAZER
I Learn Everything on TV
Soundsister Records
Vor rund zwei Jahren habe ich meinen Fernseher aus dem Fenster geworfen. Das hatte nichts mit Rockstar-Attitüde zu tun, es war ein ganz gewöhnlicher spontaner Wutausbruch. Hätte ich gewusst, dass man dort lernen kann, wie eine juvenile Mischung aus XBXRX, Throbbing Gristle und einem Granatwerfer zu klingen, hätte ich mir das Ganze wohl noch mal überlegt. Vielleicht hätte ich mir noch eine Weile länger diese erotischen Sportclips ansehen sollen.
CAPTAIN DRECK
aqui esta el link
MANIQUI LAZER
I Learn Everything on TV
Soundsister Records
Vor rund zwei Jahren habe ich meinen Fernseher aus dem Fenster geworfen. Das hatte nichts mit Rockstar-Attitüde zu tun, es war ein ganz gewöhnlicher spontaner Wutausbruch. Hätte ich gewusst, dass man dort lernen kann, wie eine juvenile Mischung aus XBXRX, Throbbing Gristle und einem Granatwerfer zu klingen, hätte ich mir das Ganze wohl noch mal überlegt. Vielleicht hätte ich mir noch eine Weile länger diese erotischen Sportclips ansehen sollen.
CAPTAIN DRECK
Monday, August 18, 2008
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Slug Review
Maniqui Lazer
I Learn Everything on TV
Soundsister
Street: 08.15
ML = Chinese Stars + Agape + XBXRX
The modern sound of punk that has been festering for years in San Diego inside the likes of The Locust, The Plot to Blow Up The Eiffel Tower, and 31G Records’ roster has found its way past customs and infected Mexicali’s Maniqui Lazer. Three seemingly pleasant boys now succumb to fits of screaming, dancing, and demolishing electronic instruments to a catchy drumbeat. Once exhausted, they twiddle knobs on keyboards to create sparse instrumentals here and there, which all descend into confusion. At its apex, the disease turns the boys into suave killers. They charm and sexify their victims with cryptic, spoken lyrics, then slice them to bits with a knife pulled from behind the bass guitar’s neck, while the music blasts into cacophony and the crowd burns down the building. –Nate Martin
I Learn Everything on TV
Soundsister
Street: 08.15
ML = Chinese Stars + Agape + XBXRX
The modern sound of punk that has been festering for years in San Diego inside the likes of The Locust, The Plot to Blow Up The Eiffel Tower, and 31G Records’ roster has found its way past customs and infected Mexicali’s Maniqui Lazer. Three seemingly pleasant boys now succumb to fits of screaming, dancing, and demolishing electronic instruments to a catchy drumbeat. Once exhausted, they twiddle knobs on keyboards to create sparse instrumentals here and there, which all descend into confusion. At its apex, the disease turns the boys into suave killers. They charm and sexify their victims with cryptic, spoken lyrics, then slice them to bits with a knife pulled from behind the bass guitar’s neck, while the music blasts into cacophony and the crowd burns down the building. –Nate Martin
Saturday, August 02, 2008
Subba-culta Review 4.5 headphones
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=7964
Maniqui Lazer
'I Learn Everything on TV'
Soundsister
Do you agree or disagree with what's been said? have your say here:click here
Maniqui Lazer brand themselves as “lazer punk” and I guess that fits. Synth filled mayhem ensues…
Hailing from Mexico, these guys are crazy. End of.
On a more in depth note, Maniqui Lazer are a hyperactive mix of attitude and punk a la Iggy Pop and the craziness and zaniness of Melt Banana. It took my brain ages to register what they remind me of and it’s ‘There’s Always Room on the Broom’ by Liars - they have the same dirty, edgy, awkward sound. At times they even have the aggression, and not to mention throat, of bands such as Blood Brothers (RIP). Safe to say, this is a bit eclectic and weird, but I like it for the most part. Some of the 30-40 second songs are, I will admit, lost on me. I never really like songs that finish before they start. I am also not a fan of the screeching that is carried during this - I much prefer the suave talk-singing and the DFA1979-esque singing. But the thought put it in to it, and the style and attitude that these guys give is pretty cool. Surprisingly some of it is pretty catchy, despite the extreme quirkyness. Go ahead and at least give this a try, if you’re open to something a little odd you might like it.
By: Sara Curtis
Maniqui Lazer
'I Learn Everything on TV'
Soundsister
Do you agree or disagree with what's been said? have your say here:click here
Maniqui Lazer brand themselves as “lazer punk” and I guess that fits. Synth filled mayhem ensues…
Hailing from Mexico, these guys are crazy. End of.
On a more in depth note, Maniqui Lazer are a hyperactive mix of attitude and punk a la Iggy Pop and the craziness and zaniness of Melt Banana. It took my brain ages to register what they remind me of and it’s ‘There’s Always Room on the Broom’ by Liars - they have the same dirty, edgy, awkward sound. At times they even have the aggression, and not to mention throat, of bands such as Blood Brothers (RIP). Safe to say, this is a bit eclectic and weird, but I like it for the most part. Some of the 30-40 second songs are, I will admit, lost on me. I never really like songs that finish before they start. I am also not a fan of the screeching that is carried during this - I much prefer the suave talk-singing and the DFA1979-esque singing. But the thought put it in to it, and the style and attitude that these guys give is pretty cool. Surprisingly some of it is pretty catchy, despite the extreme quirkyness. Go ahead and at least give this a try, if you’re open to something a little odd you might like it.
By: Sara Curtis
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