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Does It Offend You, Yeah?
– Don’t Say We Didn’t warn You
This review is for all the people out there that have to live with a music freak. My partner is one patient woman as my music taste is all over the place. It runs the gambit from hardcore bebop jazz to pop to country to blues and then all the way to prog-rock. She literally never knows what will come firing out of the speakers next. So when I played the new Does It Offend You, Yeah? album, Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You and she said it sounded like Frank Zappa, I didn’t really know if she meant that as a compliment or not.

This album is defiantly all over the place (in the best possible way) and like Zappa’s often times outrageous and offensive (once again in the best possible way) manner, it charms as much as it outrages. The British group, who hail from Reading have never really done things the easy way and their new work carries on in that glorious tradition. As much as the band is known to destroy their stage gear in the live arena, this album attempts to do the same with your ears.

Mixing loud and obnoxious guitars with profane samples and electronic beats makes the music a melting pot of contradictory styles. This sound however is held together by a very strong sense of purpose and more than a wink and nod of humorous intent. You can call it many things but boring is not one of them.

So after my partner’s almost acceptance of this album, I decided to really test the waters by playing Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz (yes both parts), Frank Zappa’s Yellow Shark and then Mogwai’s Mr Beast and you know what, it looks like I’m going to be dining alone tonight.
Rob Hudson
www.doesitoffendyou.com

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