Cmn ineed yr hlp - It Came Without Warning...As Most Disatsers Do digital EP

Still playing catch up on these reviews, but as promised last time, only gonna spend time on the out-fucking-standing shit, and this hunk of plastic is no exception. Mark from Cmn ineed yr hlp hit me up to see what I thought of his band. My immediate response to him was, "This record is downright trouble.  Like a good book that you can't put down, I couldn't stop listening.  Usually I'm multi-tasking when I listen to music on the computer, but this demanded my full attention." A novel set to music, an un-lame opera, an extreme musical.  Here's what the band had to say, "Now in their sixth year, Cmn ineed yr hlp continues to be ambitious, pretentious, and self-aware enough to poke fun at themselves about these characteristics (as well as their beloved, yet much-maligned band name). Jose Rosales (guitar), Ian Gegenheimer (drums) and Mark Oster (bass) started composing their second record together more than three years ago, and with the help of Matt Engstrom (recording and mixing) and Gary Yek (mastering), have finally brought it to fruition."  First off check out the cover art, that's a whole fucking story in itself.  A friend of mine recently described the experience perfectly, "I used to love listening to an album and devouring the cover with my eyes."  The story itself is a sad one, like King Kong or Moby Dick, as humanity in it's typically vulgar way, tries to subdue nature...in this case it backfires (at least that was my impression).  There is this early radio broadcast thing going, eerie sound effects and news headlines included, like an H.G. Wells narrated story interspersed into this really tight barrage of music.  Other than the narration, the music is instrumental, like some jazz fusion beast.  The songs are not meant to be singled out, the album is one single composition, separated into acts, if you will.  There is no repetition, no verse or chorus, instead, a very well thought out and conceived super jam.  Mathy and progressive is what I suppose some would call it and if that means superior, tight as getting the 20th person into the phone booth, musicianship, combined with an Einstein-like intellectual unfolding of the universe approach to songwriting, then this is that.  Over at Gotta Groove Records you can read a bit more about them, along with a shit ton of (better than mine) reviews (sometimes I wonder why folks hit this city turned country boy up for his opinion on their tunes, they must already know they rock).  Cmn... have their own WEBSITE to peruse, and an ultra heavy web presence in the form of a Bandcamp, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blip.fm, MySpace, Last.FM and a ReverbNation.  At this point, the record (so to speak) is only available digitally, but the band is trying to get the funds together to release this as a proper 12" EP.  Enough babbling, listen and be amazed... http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=617669444/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/transparent=true/

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