Part Chimp: South London Noise Mongers Are Off The Wall
Youthfulness expressed through music can be great, of course. Yet when a record or a live performance crackles with the hedonism and abandon commonly thought to be the preserve of the young, but is in fact created by people approaching middle age – that’s capital-G Great, trampling a load of daft received wisdom as it does. Part Chimp are a London-based quartet who have mostly been in active, and actively noisy, bands since the early Nineties. They are shortly to release Thriller, their third studio album (again on Mogwai’s Rock Action label), and it’s fair to suggest they’ve never rocked harder: unruly amplifier worship with feedback gushing like claret from a decapitation victim, their riffs coalescing and climbing to create a paradoxical micro-micro-genre of euphoric doom metal. It is probably mastered at higher volume than almost all records you own; don’t touch that dial.
