Kong - ‘Snake Magnet’

It’s spasmodic, darkly humorous, often brilliantly loud, and utterly insane...

Posted Tuesday, 14 July 2009 in

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Kong - ‘Snake Magnet’

Rating: 8

Bands hate being pigeonholed, and as such Manchester three-piece Kong must be mighty happy campers. ‘Snake Magnet’, their debut album, sounds very little like anything else. It’s spasmodic, darkly humorous, often brilliantly loud, and utterly insane. This album’s so good, it defies logic. But, given that they perform live with their faces painfully distorted in masks fashioned out of sticky tape, delivering bewildering, transfixing shows, it somehow all makes sense. It takes time to love ‘Snake Magnet’, but if join Kong in their mad, mad world, you’ll feel all the better for it. Do it, you crazy motherfucker.

Tim Newbound

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