Kamikazee
?Long Time Noisy?
Universal Records
The third album by this quintet of hell-raising Pinoy metal-heads sure is ?long time? (76 minutes) and noisy (punk-rock guitars and drum rumbles galore).
It?s littered with fodder: a lengthy track featuring recording outtakes; another has thank-you?s from each member; a remake of FrancisM?s ?Meron Akong Ano? that isn?t as trippy as the band?s famous cover of Apo?s ?Doobidoo,?; and the Smart telecom ad theme ?Me na Me,? which isn?t as fun as the group?s Rexona endorsement.
But the album is not totally a mess. Such standouts as ?Wala? (a kick-ass kiss-off to the government), ?Lalandiin? (replete with ?Theme from SWAT? guitars and a tongue-twisting chorus to depict a macho dancer?s lifestyle) and ?Hot Mami? (a steamy-noodle-soup paean cum salacious ode to hot mamas) show that Kamikazee is a swell band that can be great ? should it keep at this for a noisy long time.
Gossip
?Music for Men?
Sony Music
A mammoth album brimming with muscular rock, spiced with propulsive beats that faintly echo the disco era, like feistier incarnations of Blondie or The Motels.
