Billiam - Animation Cel LP

Automatic hydraulic stamp-press Australian garage synth punk, this second album continuing the spring-loaded paranoia and serious fun you've come to expect from this neurodivergent genious, and wrenching it up in every department, the sounds, the songs, and the punch, great from the get go, as soon as they yank open the curtain and pull the lever, snapping it back home, the long-player featuring many of my favorite Billiam cuts, Side One opening with a cattle prod to those bolts on your Frankenstein neck, ending the side with the 1-2-3 punch of "Bash My Head..."  the catchy "My Metronome" and "Segaworld," launching back into it with the second side, continuing with a mix of crazy and catchy, the blue flag wagging, the Billiam jalopy moving into position, bouncing, rolling and rocking down the torn up blacktop on a Roger Rabbit-style half animated movie action-packed with massive cartoon mallets smashing talking heads, dump-trucks and mario carts, thunder booming, lightning crackling and electric lines buzzing in the orange skies overhead...while synth punk has been going since the beginning (and maybe Billiam's "Hit the Brakes" on this album offers a nod to the importance of 1966's "Talk Talk" from the one-glove wonders of Los Angeles), Billiam has his own thing going...going off the cliff and into your ear holes, dropping on your skull like a 2-ton cartoon Acme anvil, and I can only weave my fingers into a two-handed fist and hope he keeps the plastic pedal to the metal and keeps this crazy jalopy going down this path until the end of time.
(Erste Theke/ 2024)

Tracklist:
01. Animation Cell
02. Maneater Three
03. Emotions
04. Carrot On Your Hand
05. Hydraulic Press
06. Protect The Emerald
07. Bash My Head Against A MYKI Pole
08. My Metronome
09. Segaworld (NSW Circa 1997)
10. The Fog
11. Cortizol
12. Alt Coffee
13. Matinee Show
14. Maid Dress
15. Hit The Brakes
16. Shawn Kerri's Grave