New Eyedealism

A review by Jay Edwards

On the jazzy side of the street, to the left of the pop melodramatics of Bjork, below the gale force art house winds of Diamanda Galas, and on the blackhand side of your daddy's favorite torch singer, Julie London, comes "Aggressive Cheesecake" by Angel Eyedealism and The Horny Spawn. Angel is a singer who is all that and more. This is girl power for grown up, ass kickin' bitches (like me) and the men who love us. With a voice that goes from a honeyed growl, on instant classics like the neo soul ballad "Lost and Found," and the free style chant "Come Down Mary," to operatic wails, on the thrill ride "Angel Eye," in seconds flat. With a musical stew that includes Mark Kirby's melange of hip hopified, old soul, style funk beats, slinky, butt rockin' bass, Nick D's hallucinatory guitar mutations, and keyboardist Craig Flannigan's special effects,

this band takes its trip hop and electronica roots and reaches beyond the turgid monotony and emotional flat lining those genres. Whether it's the club pop of "Budapest," a free style spoken word thang ,over organic break beats ("Rheamus Rhyme"), or "Deadpan Harlequin," their answer to The Doors' "The End," they prove that it ain't what you do, it the way that you do it.

Angel and the Spawn serve notice on all the one trick ponies and so-called singers that litter the musical landscape like a viral red tide; attention all you girly rock and twerp-boy bands, you're the disease, meet the cure. To get your inoculation, a jiggy T-shirt, and a place on the bandwagon, check their web site at www.angeleyerecords.com.

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