Infants // Giant Leg
On first listen the totally bat shit sonics on the record provide a pleasant regression to the simple world of underage drinking and poppers.
Release date: 27th August 2012
Infants – Giant Leg (Tigertrap Records)
I remember talking to someone about mid noughties nu-rave dance punk pioneers Test Icicles’ at a party once. This guy was trying to convince me that their band name wasn’t a joke about male genitalia, but was actually some more profound statement about stalactites and stalagmites and the burgeoning impact of global warming. I think he was on drugs. He also didn’t know that Test Icicles was a band made up of 18 year old boys, and that their previous incarnation had simply been called Balls. Infants’ posthumous release ‘Giant Leg’ has a similar vibe about it. The band actually split in 2009, but have only just released their long awaited, self-recorded debut LP. If we’re brutally honest, it couldn’t have come at a stranger time. On first listen the totally bat shit sonics on the record provide a pleasant regression to the simple world of underage drinking and poppers. Nobody ever OD’d in 2004, and music like this was the soundtrack to those unadulterated times. But nowadays, with the dour state of the world, and the cynical nature of just about everyone, and everything, we demand a bit more than cheap thrills…or do we?. It’s a crazy album; a big mash of thrash riffing, electro beats, screams, yelps, and glitches. With the right type of people you’ll really get off on it, and it’d still be a great party album. It’s certainly fun, and not much more, but that doesn’t matter one bit.
8/10 – Alex Throssell
