Emetrex - hammering the lucid edge

"I bring the same emotional energy and sense of drama that I had in movies to our live shows. I think music is a visceral experience whereas film is cerebral. Maybe film is more intellectual and music is emotional and so I feel like - I don’t know if it’s a real word - I’m an ‘emotionalist’. I just like to move people," film actress Juliette Lewis [‘Natural Born Killers’] explains reasons for fronting her outfit Juliette and the Licks.

A lot of artists [not only a film star-cum-chanteuse] so claim but few truly levitate to the calling. The fact is that most music is hormonally triggered and majority of listeners are ‘communalists’. Emetrex have never subscribed to such industrial ploy and prefer to remain on the wild, exciting and challenging side of creativity and, ultimately [although not intentionally], the profit fence.

‘Hammer In My Skull’ is the second single to be culled from the band’s forthcoming ‘Wish Me Dead’ album [that is full of songs to discover, re-play and then some] that again delivers class and quality. ‘Hammer’ is instantly impressive slice of tonal flavouring that somewhat recalls… if U2 were young, into fuzzy guitars, distorted indie sound and Bono's not considered for the Nobel Peace Prize. Singer Rick Lescault views the world and its agenda-of-decay from the human level and not an ego-podium, however righteous.

‘Hammer’ doesn’t do it by muscle really but by being subversively clever with melodic structuring that concludes with a deviant finale: a sustained-noise ‘bridge’ is leading into a frenzied part where the singer appears to truly lose it. There are four more tracks on this EP that not only parades the width and length of the band’s expression but also rushes to the edge of lucidity.

There is also a Strictly Limited Edition handmade CD EP backed with 4 exclusive tracks and packaged in a hand-painted stitched linen cover.

Nice gesture for collectors but music is what matters and it does here. Big time.

8/10

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Digital Download Single available from most major and independent e-tailers including Sony Connect, Napster, Yahoo Launch and KarmaDownload