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| MONSTERS AND ROBOTS-- Buckethead |
I just popped Monsters and Robots
out of the CD player, and the effect is exhilarating. There's fractured genius
going on here, with all the metal / fusion/ funk / bluegrass cross over the boundaries
so easily, and Buckethead's super-velocity guitar work punching up the action
in ways that are sonic and lethal. Wow.
If Ornette Coleman were a shred guitarist, this is the full-kerrang sonic
scraping he’d give the world that braved an audience with him. Transmutation
Live is a must have, based on this. It's as if someone put your head against a wall and then slammed it with big red brick. There's a strong suggestion of Capt.
Beefheart, with its disconcerting sci-fi lyric -scape and self-mythologizing,
but this is the evidence that skilled pastiche is the dominant form .A mixed
and borrowed bag of tricks it may well
be, but the unrelenting virtuosity , the unchained fury the musician brings to
bear on this difficult assortment of styles rises Monsters and Robots the assortment
of merely agile eclecticism that too often passes as music worth a dozen
relistens. Buckethead slices and dices
the elements so well together that the channel-surfing dynamics make sense when
the bits are linked, stitched and seared together with the speed-genius of the
fret work.
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