On the first album from the one-man Swedish band of Lightsabres, he presents nine quick cuts (a couple of them less than a minute long) of grungy metal, fuzzed vocals, and lo-fi production. The songs hit and maintain a definite style through their buzzy, down-beat raucousness, but the intentional sloppiness of the music overwhelms itself at times, going past the punk influence into garage-kit rattling, and falling short of the possible noise fusion that might imply in favor of some half-hearted shoegaze lathering. There’s an awareness of the the shortcomings, though, which lead to a few nice high-contrast jumps from blare to clarity, and the record as a whole does a fair job of demonstrating the main ideas Lightsabres would revisit on subsequent releases.
Scrambled Brains 