The Hecks: Trust And Order 7″ (Moniker, 2013)

March 23, 2013 at 11:00 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

The Hecks: Trust And Order 7″

Debut 7″ from abstract Chicago duo. “Trust And Order” walks the line between poppy Sonic Youth and zombified psych-rock. Drums shift from a snare-heavy cadence to cymbal-crazy bashing, and the vocals tend to stare in a straight line. The lead guitar plucks out a simple, memorable riff, while a mess of feedback swells underneath. Not bad, but the B-side catches my ear more. “The Time I Play With My Puppy” starts out with some rambling geezer with effects on his voice talking about playing with his puppy, with jittery guitar and shaker. The guitar bursts into this noisy, fractured part, then you hear the rambling geezer for a few more seconds, and you think you’re going to hear more of him, but the music strips down to just the guitar strumming, and then all sorts of feedback noises are gradually layered, totally derailing the song from where you thought the song was going to go. Eventually it’s just feedback noise, with some scrambled, unintelligible radio voices buried underneath, and then the record ends cold. Pretty bizarre, maybe kind of creepy, and more than a bit fascinating.

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