Various: Re-Inventing Sheep
By Jessie Scoullar
'Re-Inventing Sheep' is a compilation at the grinding, experimental end of the spectrum favoured by Club Bizarre, self-styled as New Zealand's premier dark end avante garde label. It's the sort of sound you won't hear on prime-time radio (bar the opening track Girl by the Fanatics). For the most part it's murky, new-territory music, ranging from the safe shores of gothic pop rock on tracks like Make My Day by Antoinette's Head, the industrial rhythms of Gulag by MIG21 and the slimy/sleazy Reflection of Skin and Bone by NUTE to the precipice of free noise on the later tracks. It's not without humour, such as Anti Kati's identikit highlight He Seemed to Have a Lot of CDs, adding strains of hip hop to broken industrial beats. 'Re-Inventing Sheep' is for the more adventurous listener, those for whom lines in the sand mean nothing.
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