Search - Todd :: Comes to Your House [Vinyl]

Never Was A Straight Man

L. Myers | Decatur, GA United States | 07/23/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There is no silver lining when Todd comes to your house. Their sound is nasty, slutty, grimy like the background music to a scene of big oiled-up gay bears slapping meat against meat. There is somehing about TODD that makes you want to ...k and I'm not sure what. Craig Clouse spits out disgust in excess. Its as if he gathered everyone into the studio immediately after catching his wife screwing his mentally retarded father in the kitchen of his home while his two 5-year old daughters are feet away in the living room watching the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Its that angry. And that's the perfect word: angry. A lot of music made can be described as one word that could fit many different contexts: 'heavy' could be dense and overwhelming or spacious in a way that wraps around your head and forces you to only see the walls in front of you and creeping up behind you. But 'anger' is direct. Its confrontational, it grows the more you let it out. Catharsis leads to loudness not relief. TODD are angry about all the ...t it experiences on a daily basis, not the ever-growing invasion of privacy and free-thought by mass media. TODD is too occupied with its brat of a kid swearing loudly when its at the grocery store.



Album opener 'Salty Old Queen of the Sea' is the best analogy for life ever. That c... just won't stop milking it for effect. And when its all said and done you're left with years of melodrama and open wounds just begging for it. 'Killer Grows Wings' moves you on through, promising to just slide the head in only a little. But 'Black Skull' hasn't agreed to anything but a good time. With Eugene Robinson expatriated from Oxbowville, TODD details an unfortunate encounter with a dog on its last leg, eventually. From here you are trapped in TODD's sob story. And its a good one. So good you haven't noticed your friends and family abandoning you. "Its for your own good."



In conclusion, TODD slaughters. It chokes the same throbbing c..k of energy as Oxbow and Burmese. At first you worry about the kind of person who could imagine this music and these scenes. Then you worry about the kind of person who would enjoy experiencing them. This all happens after you become that person without realizing it. Sleep tight!"