It is “a
big task” to rumble into first place on the all-time great math-rock band list,
but Grimény is up to the
challenge! Well, I don’t know that there’s really a list of that sort, or if
anyone’s really keeping some kind of analytical score, or if the objective and
the subjective should intermingle in such a way, or even if the whole
enterprise is a good idea, but none of that even matters once Grimény starts blasting away. The
Berlin trio punks up whatever early-1990s Chicago trio happens to be on repeat
that day and shoots like a rocket into a rhythmic stratosphere of their own
devising. It often sounds like Don Cab mistakenly put a quarterstick of dynamite in their mouth instead of a cigar and lit
it with a Trans Am match.
Kaboom. Face obliterated by math-rocket-y
goodness.
Die Große Aufgabe means
“a big task” or “the big task” (I’m fuzzy on my German articles, but I’ll be
happy to be corrected), and let’s now call Die
Große
Aufgabe a completed task – Grimény are ready to bust through to
this side of the Atlantic. The groundwork is laid, the fuses are lit, let’s let
these firecrackers (again, uh, quartersticks)
pop off in tape decks everywhere. The band interplay is spectacular – this isn’t
their first go-round after all – and the inventive songwriting keeps Die Große Aufgabe from getting stuck
in a guitar/bass/drums rut. That’s because it’s a synthesizer/guitars/bass/drums setup, so you can imagine the echoes
of I Am Spoonbender throughout this thing. Gosh, that’s something I’ve missed.
https://grimeny.bandcamp.com/
https://alreadydeadtapes.bandcamp.com/
--Ryan
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