EXEK are an Australian garage rock/post-punk/noise-rock band from Melbourne. Their latest album ''Biased Advice'' came out a couple of months ago this year, and it packs a pretty good mixture of garage rock, psychedelia and post-punkish noise-rock. Well that isn't anything that unique on its own to be fair, but EXEK on ''Biased Advice'' mix these verious genres quite well and in a satisfactory manner, making for a good album overall.
The first track on the album is titled ''Submitted'' and it packs a mixture of feedback and echo laden guitars with a psych feel on top of a repetitive krautrockish post-punk bassline with a slight dub vibe to it perhaps. Whatever the case may be the echoing guitars and the forward propelling repetitive bassline work well together. The second track ''A Hedonist'' works in a similar manner, only that the tempo of the track is somewhat faster while the guitars have a similar feel to them as in the first track in parts. ''Foreign Legion'' again packs a repetitive slow almost dubbish bassline that is accompanied by some fascinating noisy echoing guitars that move inbetween what you'd expect from a noise-rock and a psych track. Same things can essentially be said about the penultimate track ''Replicate'', only that this track is well somewhat better in replicating the same tendencies in some ways. The best track on the entire album is probably ''Baby Giant Squid''. It doesn't really differ that much in structure from any of the tracks before, only that everything starting from the repetitive bassline and the rhythm section until the pretty distinct echo, reverb and feedback laden guitars work really well. Making for a rather addictive eerie and psychedelic piece in the end. Also the piano bits fit in rather well and add an interesting dimension to the tracks that also packs some fascinating transcendant psychedelic ambience in the second half of the track.
All in all ''Biased Advice'' is a pretty decent album within its particular niche and thus it is worth checking out for anyone who is into a mixture of post-punk, garage rock, noise rock and psychedelia.
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Bandcamp: https://exek.bandcamp.com/album/biased-advice
