By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR Scene Writer on Oct 13, 2009, at 11:46 AM Updated on 10/27 at 10:40 AM
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Mission of Burma's disordered aural logic is arresting.
All at once, bass lines sprint, vocals shamble, drums punt angry rhythm, guitars wickedly bleat. When those elements collide in the band's bare melodic space, it's nothing short of dizzying — and hypnotic.
The band's newest, "
The Sound The Speed The Light," is raucous, loud and magnificently confusing.
The album's 12 tracks are more or less divided into four "suites" including three songs each. The band claims the tunes explore colors. More accurately, they explore rational realms steeped in irrational emotion, from delinquency to covetousness to elation to anguish.
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