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"Phantom Photography Review"

So the stewardess roused you to the sound of screeching noise from the lowering flaps and landing gear. So what? Stir your drink and keep trying to play the role of being a good Catholic.

Brooklyn based bbigpigg offers no shortage of screech bending guitars on their latest album “Phantom Photography.” The opening track “Bad Tree” is solid like an impassable traffic jam full of abandoned cars. Lined with sharp facial scratched post-punk jabs that leave you with an eerie sense of danger.

“Harry Eastlack” will make you involuntarily shiver. A talisman won’t save you against this unknown evil. Dissonance, sing-song yelp action, and men clinging desperately to their cocks falling out of their sockets.

I can’t tell you why, but some for odd reason the beginning of “Fox the Foxx” reminds me of Nazareth’s “Hair of the Dog.” For many of you listeners, you may instead hear the sound of a cat being sprayed with chloroform and then dropped into a crib that contains a large snake.

The herky-jerky rhythms of “Real Doll Repairs” is like being trapped in mosquito netting while falling off a slanting tin roof into grinding machinery.

I can easily make the obvious comparisons of who this band sounds like, but I won’t. Once a band starts getting compared to other groups, it is all fucking over. Look what happened to James when they were called the next Smiths.

All I can suggest is that when you finally finish listening to this album, you should sit back and let the Devil help you with your waist zipper while you enjoy a nice cold glass of milk. - Rampage Recordings


"Phantom Photography Review"

So the stewardess roused you to the sound of screeching noise from the lowering flaps and landing gear. So what? Stir your drink and keep trying to play the role of being a good Catholic.

Brooklyn based bbigpigg offers no shortage of screech bending guitars on their latest album “Phantom Photography.” The opening track “Bad Tree” is solid like an impassable traffic jam full of abandoned cars. Lined with sharp facial scratched post-punk jabs that leave you with an eerie sense of danger.

“Harry Eastlack” will make you involuntarily shiver. A talisman won’t save you against this unknown evil. Dissonance, sing-song yelp action, and men clinging desperately to their cocks falling out of their sockets.

I can’t tell you why, but some for odd reason the beginning of “Fox the Foxx” reminds me of Nazareth’s “Hair of the Dog.” For many of you listeners, you may instead hear the sound of a cat being sprayed with chloroform and then dropped into a crib that contains a large snake.

The herky-jerky rhythms of “Real Doll Repairs” is like being trapped in mosquito netting while falling off a slanting tin roof into grinding machinery.

I can easily make the obvious comparisons of who this band sounds like, but I won’t. Once a band starts getting compared to other groups, it is all fucking over. Look what happened to James when they were called the next Smiths.

All I can suggest is that when you finally finish listening to this album, you should sit back and let the Devil help you with your waist zipper while you enjoy a nice cold glass of milk. - Rampage Recordings


"Phantom Photography Review"

bbigpigg out of Brooklyn, NY is a noise-rock band, and they're just fine with that. They remind one of Arab on Radar, AIDS Wolf, and Child Abuse, with swinging lazer-guitars and fat bass, constantly colliding with each other, with only a mid-tempo drumset to hold it together. Sprinkled atop is what I can only describe as "that faded jeans' megaphone sound" type vocals, shouting out prose and speculation on the like of everyone's angsty problems. You know, trees, sex dolls, and the like.

"in my dreams i use my arms and legs again like i used to live. i remember when pissy sheets was the worst of my problems. then i lost control of my limbs"
"Harry Eastlack"

bbigpigg seems to go for the more danceable approach in their realm of sound while still upholding the standard abrasiveness that you might come to expect from self-proclaimed noise-rockers. I feel as though the album goes on for way longer than its just-short-of-16-minutes existence, making for a nice lengthy groove to move to. They had a very nice press kit, too... Check out thar EP for free download folks, you can get it here! - Toxicmolar


"Phantom Photography Review"

bbigpigg out of Brooklyn, NY is a noise-rock band, and they're just fine with that. They remind one of Arab on Radar, AIDS Wolf, and Child Abuse, with swinging lazer-guitars and fat bass, constantly colliding with each other, with only a mid-tempo drumset to hold it together. Sprinkled atop is what I can only describe as "that faded jeans' megaphone sound" type vocals, shouting out prose and speculation on the like of everyone's angsty problems. You know, trees, sex dolls, and the like.

"in my dreams i use my arms and legs again like i used to live. i remember when pissy sheets was the worst of my problems. then i lost control of my limbs"
"Harry Eastlack"

bbigpigg seems to go for the more danceable approach in their realm of sound while still upholding the standard abrasiveness that you might come to expect from self-proclaimed noise-rockers. I feel as though the album goes on for way longer than its just-short-of-16-minutes existence, making for a nice lengthy groove to move to. They had a very nice press kit, too... Check out thar EP for free download folks, you can get it here! - Toxicmolar


"Phantom Photography Review"

Bbigpigg are an NYC band and this is their debut 5-song EP. This is noise-rock that falls just about halfway between what I call noise-rock (music with rock beats, but incorporating real dissonant sounds or noise) and what some other people call noise-rock (loud edgy rock in the vein of the Jesus Lizard or somesuch). Shrill and tweaked guitars stab at you, but unlike some other modern No Wavers, this is anchored to a rock-solidly skilled rhythm section. Like… Shellac playing Arab on Radar covers? If you like Satanized or Microwaves you’ll probably want to check these guys out.

Let me get one complaint out of the way. For some reason I never like pig-themed things so I’m not into the band name. It might just be me. (I also don’t like songs about volcanos. Can’t say why.) I do think the curious spelling is going to throw people off though. I kept typing it in as bbiggppigg. Nope, the letters in the middle are not doubled. It’s bbigpigg. I never liked Boss Hogg’s name either (similarity intentional?) but somehow I got over it.

I caught a show by these guys last weekend and it sounded great live, and I was impressed by the one-slide-on-each-hand guitar technique. (not present on this album?) I think I caught more atypical time signatures going on at the show too. In fact my favorite track on this is the last one, “Foxx the Fox” where one guitar is playing in threes, the other in fives, and I couldn’t quite pick up on what the drummer and bassist were doing but it was something weird. It makes for a constantly shifting mess – of the best kind imaginable. And it makes me want to listen again so I can figure it out. That counts as a big win in my book. - No-Core


"Phantom Photography Review"

Bbigpigg are an NYC band and this is their debut 5-song EP. This is noise-rock that falls just about halfway between what I call noise-rock (music with rock beats, but incorporating real dissonant sounds or noise) and what some other people call noise-rock (loud edgy rock in the vein of the Jesus Lizard or somesuch). Shrill and tweaked guitars stab at you, but unlike some other modern No Wavers, this is anchored to a rock-solidly skilled rhythm section. Like… Shellac playing Arab on Radar covers? If you like Satanized or Microwaves you’ll probably want to check these guys out.

Let me get one complaint out of the way. For some reason I never like pig-themed things so I’m not into the band name. It might just be me. (I also don’t like songs about volcanos. Can’t say why.) I do think the curious spelling is going to throw people off though. I kept typing it in as bbiggppigg. Nope, the letters in the middle are not doubled. It’s bbigpigg. I never liked Boss Hogg’s name either (similarity intentional?) but somehow I got over it.

I caught a show by these guys last weekend and it sounded great live, and I was impressed by the one-slide-on-each-hand guitar technique. (not present on this album?) I think I caught more atypical time signatures going on at the show too. In fact my favorite track on this is the last one, “Foxx the Fox” where one guitar is playing in threes, the other in fives, and I couldn’t quite pick up on what the drummer and bassist were doing but it was something weird. It makes for a constantly shifting mess – of the best kind imaginable. And it makes me want to listen again so I can figure it out. That counts as a big win in my book. - No-Core


"Phantom Photography Review"

The sub-genre of noise rock is something that is undeniably scarce in a time at which we need it most, as bloggers bombard music goers with unreasonably glossy 80's pop retread-- whether it's a product of irony or genuine interest. Hard-hitting hellraisers like Drunkdriver, Part Chimp, and Pre have dissipated, and the source of modern music's fury now leads to the realm of extreme metal-- which remains quite distant from the elusive dissonance of the aforementioned acts. Enter New York's bbigpigg: a band bold enough to not only revive a dwindling sound, but to also release their debut Phantom Photography EP for the price of nothing.

What bbigpigg make renovations to, in particular, is the disharmonious and sleazy disposition of Arab On Radar. The dual-dynamic guitars are utilized throughout: while the former guts the aural senses with minor bends and shrieks, the latter and bass provide a thick undertone with an undefinable, roaring timbre. Weasel Walter's signature production techniques are also emulated via the left-and-right channel guitar separation. While the sexual lyricism channels that of AoR frontman Eric Paul, their vulgarity is much more subtle: for instance, the pounding chorus of "Real Doll Repairs" contains the line, "No she ain't real but, she gimme real satisfaction"-- certainly nowhere near as squirm-inducing as the uncouth poetry of songs like "My Mind Is A Muffler."

As vile and grating as I've championed Phantom Photography to be, it somehow retains accessibility, at least in the eyes of those conscious of bbigpigg's contemporaries. Each of these five tracks beats the listener's ears nearly to death, but with verse-chorus-verse knuckledusters, making the "noise" and "rock" in the equation equal-handed. To conclude, if the not-so-great band name and cover artwork haven't persuaded you, perhaps my endorsement will. - Olive Music


"Phantom Photography Review"

The sub-genre of noise rock is something that is undeniably scarce in a time at which we need it most, as bloggers bombard music goers with unreasonably glossy 80's pop retread-- whether it's a product of irony or genuine interest. Hard-hitting hellraisers like Drunkdriver, Part Chimp, and Pre have dissipated, and the source of modern music's fury now leads to the realm of extreme metal-- which remains quite distant from the elusive dissonance of the aforementioned acts. Enter New York's bbigpigg: a band bold enough to not only revive a dwindling sound, but to also release their debut Phantom Photography EP for the price of nothing.

What bbigpigg make renovations to, in particular, is the disharmonious and sleazy disposition of Arab On Radar. The dual-dynamic guitars are utilized throughout: while the former guts the aural senses with minor bends and shrieks, the latter and bass provide a thick undertone with an undefinable, roaring timbre. Weasel Walter's signature production techniques are also emulated via the left-and-right channel guitar separation. While the sexual lyricism channels that of AoR frontman Eric Paul, their vulgarity is much more subtle: for instance, the pounding chorus of "Real Doll Repairs" contains the line, "No she ain't real but, she gimme real satisfaction"-- certainly nowhere near as squirm-inducing as the uncouth poetry of songs like "My Mind Is A Muffler."

As vile and grating as I've championed Phantom Photography to be, it somehow retains accessibility, at least in the eyes of those conscious of bbigpigg's contemporaries. Each of these five tracks beats the listener's ears nearly to death, but with verse-chorus-verse knuckledusters, making the "noise" and "rock" in the equation equal-handed. To conclude, if the not-so-great band name and cover artwork haven't persuaded you, perhaps my endorsement will. - Olive Music


Discography

2012 "Phantom Photography" EP (Not Unlike Records)

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Brooklyn's bbigpigg has been dishing out its irreverent take on groove-heavy noise rock since 2010. United by a common pathological urge to hammer away at warm bodies with tightly-wound blasts of hooky dissonance, the band (established by ex-members of The Drayton Sawyer Gang and PR|NT) set up shop in a suitably scummy East Williamsburg basement studio and got to work shaping its sound. In addition to the obvious nods to classic noise acts like The Jesus Lizard and Arab on Radar, the band drew on diverse musical influences, adopting a freewheeling approach to songwriting that aimed to balance ferocious sonic excess with detailed composition that rewards repeated listening.

The result was 2011's "Phantom Photography," bbigpigg's lo-fi debut and tacit statement of purpose. Recorded and mixed by the band in their studio during the closing months of 2010, the EP's five tracks "[beat] the listener's ears nearly to death, but with verse-chorus-verse knuckledusters, making the "noise" and "rock" in the equation equal-handed." (Olive Music) Tied together by its darkly humorous first-person tales of spectral disturbance, "Phantom Photography" manages to deal its damage while remaining far more accessible than it has any right to be. True to the band's DIY ethos, the EP was released as a free digital download through bbigpigg.com, with plans to do the same for all future releases as well. In 2012, a vinyl edition of "Phantom Photography" was issued by Toronto's Not Unlike Records.

bbigpigg has shared the stage with noisemakers like VAZ, Dead Rider (ex-US Maple), and Xaddax (ex-Dazzling Killmen), as well as with up-and comers like Odonis Odonis and Yvette. The band has thus far taken its relentless live assault on the road into the Northeast US and Canada, and have appeared as guests on WFMU and Pratt Radio. They are currently recording a full-length follow-up to "Phantom Photography," to be released in 2013.