Catalyst Review: Mashemon - Removal Music.

 If I had to list for you the multitude of good deeds I committed in order to gain a copy of this much discussed album, I would seem like man touched by a multitude of angels with very big halos. Instead, I'll tell you about the CD by Mashemon that hasn't left my stereo since I picked up my well earned copy last week at The Nerve Centre.

With a cover consisted of many fifties bathing costume clad dolls floating in a swimming pool whilst a similarly clad female looks into the distance smiling, the Removal Music album is a fast moving experience, with wit, charm and distinct melodies much in evidence. It's also well worth a listen as well for the adventurous, the keen of taste and the sonically adventurous. Opening with the opposite sounding Dull Boy, the Mashemon sound is hammered home instantly with a song that is anything but dull. In it's pertinent lyrics, pointed delivery and well produced sound, it is an opener in the tradition of the best, leading you with a aural bang across the temporal lobe to an adventure in a music wonderland where you go round and round in listening cycles and never, ever get bored. Following is Sanity Check, a deceptive slow opener that leads to a full foot-through-floor smashing that makes the listener nod to themselves in the way of "Hey, This is good!"

I could go on and say something similar for every track, but that would be pointless. It's enough to say that if you are a sinner, a saint, an anarchist, a rebel of any kind or just plain alive, you have a social obligation to do a good deed, whatever it may be, and earn yourself a copy of Removal Music! Stand out tracks for this intrepid reviewer are Sanity Check, This Monkey Is and Facts. So, in short, to paraphrase closer Facts, you really should change your way to Mashemon's way! Or else.


You know what you have to be doing now, people. 


Reviewed by Sebastian Gahan.