Pillow Talk - Downtown Unga Wunga 7"

Columbus, Ohio's Pillow Talk might be categorically lumped in with the minimal basement synth bands that seem to be making waves with the Ebay collector crowd. Like Blank Dogs et al, Pillow Talk's sound is alienated, driven by simple, previously bygone casio beats and stabs of jagged, fractured synth. It's unlikely that Pillow Talk will play a show and their online presence, now an integral element to the shaping of most bands' identities, is somewhat provocatively non-existent. While plenty of record collector bands get by on PR moves like these and little more, nothing outside of Pillow Talk's music can actually prepare listeners for what's going on, on "Downtown Unga Wunga."

Pillow Talk's debut 7" is truly confounding at a time when more bands are attempting to sound confounding than ever. "Downtown Unga Wunga" is baffling. It's a belligerent, amphetamine morass soked in the cold sweat fallout of too much speed and booze. It's a record on the verge of vomiting if there ever was one. With a penchant for the hardcore bands like Psycho Sin, who occupy a corner of the sub genre that is too warped to appeal to hardcore purists and too idiotic for the art set, Pillow Talk finds a way to breath life into a musical resurgence that hasn't been as captivating for me as it has been for plenty of others.