Date
Animals –
Tracklisting
1.Date
Animals 03:19
2.Stones
for Teeth 04:07
3.Names
and Faces 02:06
4.Margherita
Hack 07:31
5.Mugshot
04:40
6.1947,
Plea (Golden Worms pt.I) 03:29
7.Invocación
(Golden Worms pt.II) 03:10
8.2082,
Kings (Golden Worms pt.III) 04:32
Members
Guitar
& Vocals/Lyrics: Francesco Bordoni
Bass:
Francesco Mastellone
Drums:
Simone Romagnoli
Additional
personnel:
Guitar
solo on track 5: Simone Giacomucci (Il Gigante)
Synths
on track(s) 5, 6, 8: Davide Costarelli
Inspiration
on track(s) 1–8: Arnold S.
Review
Well
this must be the weirdest album I’ve heard this year. Date Animals
is the new album from Italian Punk/Sludge/Stoner Metallers –
Lesbian Wallet. These guys are very hard to describe with the band
drawing influences from The Melvins, High On Fire, Mastodon, QOTSA
and The Jesus Lizard.
Everything
about this album doesn’t make sense. It’s noisy, raucous, angry,
loud and messy as hell. However, it’s also extremely addictive and
contains some furious heavy riffs that Sludge/Stoner Metal fans will
embrace with violent glee. I think only Lesbian Wallet themselves
fully understand what is going on behind the frantic guitar sounds
and maybe that’s the whole point with Date Animals.
The
album is quite uncompromising in places with it’s insane lyrics and
vocal delivery from Francesco. Lesbian Wallet won’t be for everyone
and even I struggled with the album at first. However, the band won
me round eventually and that’s mainly down to the epic riffs
Lesbian Wallet play throughout the album.
Date
Animals fully comes alive when Lesbian Wallet decide to play
conventional Sludge/Stoner Metal riffs against the Punk Rock/Noise
Rock carnage that holds everything together. The whole feel of the
album has quite a LO-FI and EXPERIMENTAL sound from the start. So
it’s not the best produced album. However, it’s so LOUD and the
whole thing leaves you wanting more.
My
favourite songs on the album are: Date Animals, Stone For Teeth,
Names and Faces, Mugshot and the brilliant Golden Worms trilogy of
songs.
As
I stated before, this album won’t be for everyone. However, if
you’re looking for something different from the Sludge/Stoner Metal
world and a band that’s not afraid to play by the rules then
LESBIAN WALLET are the band for you.
Take
your time listening to this album as you’ll be surprised at how
good this album actually is. Even if it is a FUCKED UP and
NIGHTMARISH take on everything Sludge/Stoner Metal.
Words
by Steve Howe
