Red Therapy

This is no-wave through and through –funk, jazz, blues, punk it's all here, smashed together into one big, messy, spastically bouncing ball with the letters AKA stamped across its bruised side. I looked but wasn't able to find much information concerning this arcane Canadian crew. But what I do know is that this was their prized recording, and unfortunately the only recording they completed for that matter. Red Therapy operates much like a wind-up toy just twist the little thingy and stand back for a colorful display of animated derangement that pokes and prods while spilling guts all over the place. Each of these six songs -although easily identifiable as AKA- has a unique texture to it, making for a nice palette of seemingly mismatched sensations that will pester, delight, enthuse and confuse. The EP begins with stop-n-go jabbing from the short and abrasive opening track God, then abruptly shifts to a melody-driven, Talking Heads/Devo-esque song called City Drugs. The singer ( Dennis Mills) has a boisterous style, often quivering from low to extremely high pitches in the transportation of a single syllable… just imagine Alfalfa from Our Gang fronting a freaked out cartoon art ... more...