Mouthus Follow This House CD

Essentially a companion piece to THE LONG SALT, 2006's FOLLOW THIS HOUSE finds the Brooklyn-based noise-rock act Mouthus unleashing another blunt-force, guitar-heavy barrage. While the rumbling, stripped-down release (see the appropriately titled "Quake On") is unlikely to garner the band any new followers, it will readily appeal to the group's cadre of devoted fans.
Four tracks and (gratefully) only about half an hour long, the latest effort from these avant noise construction workers was recorded during a heat wave and sounds like it. This is music that melts -- not softly and pleasantly like ice cream or gracefully like snow, but with sludgy, viscous resentment. Imagine an angry interstate highway softening in the humid furnace of a Texas summer day, and imagine what it would sound like if it could sing: that's the sound of Mouthus on Follow This House. Is it good? Hard to say. It's got some complexity, and you could probably call it interesting, but the experience of listening to it isn't really musical -- it's more queasily anthropological. It's mood music for a particularly bad mood. Proceed with that particular brand of caution that one might normally reserve for albums by Merzbow featuring pictures of dismembered people on the cover. ~ Rick AndersonThe Wire (p.60) - "This is music that has suspended its own consciousness....You have to put it on, tweak your ears slightly out of focus and drift off with it."