Board Up the House

Album Review:
Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Leak Date: February 4, 2008

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This album seems much more structured than Genghis Tron's previous releases, and at the same time more varied. The band has seemingly discovered and harnessed all their compositional skills that shone through on tracks like "Asleep on the Forest Floor" from Dead Mountain Mouth. The songs are also( for the most part )less spastic and seemingly chopped together, though still highly energetic. They maintain their hyper, cybergrind aesthetic, while adding softer electronic interludes and other more experimental segments. The whole album manages to avoid the repetition many grindcore-type bands can incur, each song offering something new, with the whole album working together nicely and leaving you with a feeling of closure, following the somewhat Between the Buried and Me-esque 11-minute outro track, which is largely instrumental. It's strange though; with all the different, strange things going on, and even long instrumental tracks, the album holds your attention throughout. Very solid.