The Italian psychedelic rock/noise rock band Menimals came out with their self-titled album via Riot Season earlier this year. The album packs a mixture of some rather eerie sounding psychedelia in a krautrock and avant-garde noise-rock coating, while also having some ambient and electronic music influences along the way.
The first track on the album is titled ''In This Unforgiving Heat'' and the title really suits the track really well, as it has an Eastern vibe to it throughout and thus one could easily imagine some Middle-Eastern desert scenes accompanying this interesting eerie psych piece. The female vocals that barge in about half way also add a somewhat unorthodox feel to the tracks overall strange vibe. The second track ''Dodecahedron, The Window Sphere'' moves in a pretty similar way as far as the repetitive krauty bass section goes, while the mixture of male and female vocals again work to add a really strange feel to the track that has a pretty odd psychedelic vibe to it. ''Tetrahedron'' is the title of the third track, and this one starts off with some echoing ambience in order to move into a pretty clear-cut ascendant psych rock path The vocals don't tend to sound that unorthodox for a change, while still sounding pretty odd to my ear. It is followed by ''Transition From A Cube To The Octahedron'', which starts off in a pretty Earth-like manner as far as the drone infused instrumental section goes, with the whispering vocals again working like an unorthodox storytelling medium. The second half of the track also rather surprisingly moves into some rather weird darkened electronic music section. ''Bird On A Wing As A Hinge'' is the track that ends the album and it starts in a pretty clear ambient space rock way, and it continues on such a path until coming to its conclusion.
All in all the self-titled album of Menimals packs some interesting bits, and the basslines tend to be rather good in parts, but the rather strange unorthodox vocals don't really tend to suit my particular taste. While saying this the album can work quite well for someone who digs this kind of vocals. As for me then the sound is perhaps somewhat too odd.
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Bandcamp: https://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/menimals
