Whirlwind Heat - 'Flamingo Honey' (XL)
3/5
By: Matt Tomiak
Making the music of Aphex Twin resemble a distinctly commercial enterprise, Detroit's Whirlwind Heat could hardly be accused of putting on their business heads in the making of 'Flamingo Honey'.
First of all, The Facts:
'Flamingo Honey'; produced by Brendan Benson; consists of 10 'tracks', each of which last precisely 60 seconds.
The result is more of a continuous mix rather than separate pieces. Chucking into Pixies, The Beastie Boys, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, The Shins, The Melvins with casual abandon to create a truly loony ten-minute hullabaloo, Whirlwind Heat have made an 'album' that pushes limits, extends boundaries and really messes with your head. Stereophonics, this most certainly isn't.
There are tunes lurking within 'Flamingo Heat'; book-ending the screeching insanity, both opener 'The Bone'
and final number 'Lazy Morning' could provide the foundations for a couple of sweet-natured, indie-pop three-minuters.
So, defiantly brave statement of non-conformity or pretentious, unlistenable dross? It's probably somewhere in the middle.
Artists in this article: Whirlwind Heat
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