DRUM EYES are DJ Scotch Egg's drum thunder worship gang. Experts at whipping up a hypnotic maelstrom of tribal drumming trip-outs infused with sludgy doom and weird electronics. It makes a lot of sense that Eda - originally from the Boredoms - is a member of Drum Eyes, as the songs can twist 180 degrees and sound equally as beamed-in from some alien kingdom, taking the weirdest parts of Krautrock and hurling punk-synth, crushing walls of ambience and 8-bit frazzle into the mix with relish.

DJ Scotch Egg began forcing Game Boys to make the most unholy music for a variety of labels like Adaadat and Wrong Music, then with last year's transition album entitled 'Drumized' for Load Records - home of Lightning Bolt, Sightings, Brainbombs etc. - Shige began experimenting with live instrumentation. With Drum Eyes as a five-piece band, he has finally realised the full extent of his intent.

'Gira Gira'

50/50

UTR037 | CD / LP | 6 tracks, 36 minutes | August 2010

'Gira Gira' pushes Shige's musical vision to the limits and in scope is truly cosmic. "50-50" starts out life as a dreamy ascending Can workout only before regenerating into organic flailing drum-off computer wrangle.

Of the two tracks from the album concerned with time travel and law and order,"Future Police" builds like a nightmare Moroder adventure into the depths of an anxious mind, whilst "Future Yakuza" is a malevolent, blackened beast of a metal track only lethargically transmitted from an unidentified lair. It's a real monster of a song, seeing Drum Eyes make light work of 10 minutes. Flashing bright with promise and reward, they make it a pivot of the album.

The second half of 'Gira Gira' boasts the abstract wooziness of "Gyanza", coming over as a dreamy Black Dice, and fuzzed-out, chilled-dub moment "Hana B". But it's probably "13 Magicians" that leaves the greatest impression - the song bristles with barren electronics and doom-drenched drums and guitars, until sirens and low-pitched wails drown the music momentarily before it emerges victorious.

'Gira Gira' is a real triumph of an album and should leave DJ Scotch Egg deserved of attention not only from his loyal fanbase but far and wide across the metal, ambient and electronic worlds of modern music. It's an album that obliterates genres with pride and grace, whilst remaining true to its identity and assured in its ability to lodge in your mind.