Mae Shi, the / To Hit Armor Class Zero
Album: To Hit Armor Class Zero   Collection:General
Artist:Mae Shi, the   Added:Mar 2003
Label:#1USA#1/ARROYO-AU-GO-GO  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2003-09-01 Pull Date: 2003-11-03
Week Ending: Oct 26 Oct 19 Sep 28 Sep 21 Sep 14 Sep 7
Airplays: 1 2 2 3 4 4

Recent Airplay
1. Apr 10, 2010: Scatterbrain Radio
Summer in Gommorah
4. Apr 18, 2009: Music Casserole
Raise Up the Judges
2. Oct 02, 2009: The DJ Never Has It
You Can't Do that to An Axe!
5. Jan 26, 2008: Scatterbrain Radio
Summer in Gommorah
3. Jun 07, 2009: The Darling System
Summer in Gommorah
6. Jun 09, 2005: Strange Attractor - Thursday Daylight Edition
Raise Up the Judges

Album Review
Eric K!
Reviewed 2003-09-08
Review by Aug:
Wow. Take some Miracle Chosuke some Ex-Models, the attitude of early/garagey Makers... this 4-piece whip up an impressive barrage of noisy rock/synth. They use the "Buchla Sound Machine" to produce the assult. Great stuff! Friends of KZSU DJ Eric K!
1. Opens up schizophrenic and manic. Noisy yelps over twangy, raunchy bites of chrunching guitar. Male vox rasp away. The phonetic howls over sawing strings remind me of some _earlier_ stuff from The Makers... but this is wild. The bass beefs it up! Tracks ends w/ synthy beats fading out.
2. Plotting guitar frums thru the intro... breaks into distorted male croons/yelps over intent drum beats. Just makes me want to shake something loose. Super noisy, super crazy, synthy flitzes and freaked-out
voices. Very much rock, very much headless chicken.
3. Building intro... guitars chunklets & symbals rise up alongside eerie man's voice. Rough stuff. Moody, about to burst. Guitar/bass feel like they're walking up to you, and stabbing to & fro at the same time.
4. Fuck Yeah! Great intro... meaty bass, wandering guitar. Voices are light, hovering... guitars hop in place as theremin-like oohs weave in & out. Awesome. My favorite track.
5. The band describes this as a solo on the Buchla Sound Machine (a device which makes electro-signals ready for amplification & can be "sung thru") I think of trying to squeeze a huge balloon thru a door, or a water fauced turned on just so it howls (like this song), or birds chirping w/ messed-up beats or sci-fi movie effects.

Track Listing
1. You Can't Do that to An Axe!   3. Revelation Party
2. Summer in Gommorah   4. Raise Up the Judges
  5. (Instrumental)