Kotimainen Zoomonk tekee hyvää ja laadukasta sekoitusta punkista, krautista ja old school kokeellisuudesta. Ilman mitään lisätietojakin siitä huomaa heti, että mm. Neu! ja Swans on tullut huolella kuunneltua, mutta mistään kopioinnista ei ole kyse. Ensimmäiset pari raitaa eivät vielä oikein sytytä, vaan jäävät "ihan kekseliästä" asteelle. Mutta kolmannella, Neubauten-soundisella In Your Veins päästään jo hyvään hypnoottisuuteen. Ja draivi pysyy yllä jatkossakin.

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Finnish Zoomonk provides a good, high quality mix of punk, kraut rock and old school experimental. Even without any extra info one would immediately note that the artists have listened to plenty of stuff like Neu! and Swans, but this is in no means a copy band. The first couple of track's don't really impress, and remain on the "ok, interesting" level. But the third one, Neubauten-soundy In Your Veins goes all the way to a nice hypnotic feel. And from there the drive stays on. The guitar, bass and vocals work well together, making that non-continuous grinding which is so essential to this style of music. The sole negative point is the singing - it's the stereotypical basic stuff of the genre, and has a definitely Finnish accent to it. But it isn't too distracting, and at times (especially on Old King) actually fits in damn well. So the band is working with very good materials here. The question of whether this would be enough to support a full album remains unanswered, though. For on this demo the tracks, despite their high quality, do not really create a good whole.

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