Rating: 3/5
Like many new bands, Dallas Orbiter does not seem to know who they are yet. These guys experimented with pop, psychedelic rock, heavy metal, and feedback. Although I liked some songs, they were inconsistent at best. Take this for example, “Bzzjh” has no vocals, just a somewhat monotonous heavy metal jam, and then on “The Damocles File”, the band breaks into a more conventional song form that feature everything in a rock bad plus a piano.
I’ll give these guys credit though, for recklessly ripping through a 50-minute album with so many different musical styles. I can sense that they are having fun toying around with different genres of music, but to make a successful record, they need to settle down and stick with something, an album as unpredictable as this one can use something that courses through the whole album. They have the energy part down, now they have to find a genre that the band has the most chemistry, or maybe the lyrical content can stick to a single subject matter.
They sound like they are somewhat influenced by Sonic Youth. While SY play with conventional song form and add guitar feedback sessions, Dallas Orbiter adds the weird sound effects that back the seemingly regular but really weird songs. The album takes some getting used to, but never goes anywhere other than experimenting with more genres and instruments.
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Track Names
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Caspian
Ampbuzz Is For Lovers
The Dawn & Jitters
Stabbed By Grace
Maybe Soon The Lakeflies
Brow Of Zeus
Bzzjh
The Damocles File
Pigeon
New Chrome
Hallelujah, The Jetpack Dandies
Meet You
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Artist: Album
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Dallas Orbiter: Motorcycle Diagrams
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Genre
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Rock
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More Information
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http://www.dallasorbiter.com
http://www.tinderboxmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/dallasorbiter
