Ooh, before we get into the music, we have to note the random change of MySpace! All the omg’s, lol’s and wtf’s don’t really cover what Tom and Rupert Murdoch have done – like seriously.

For some strange reason, the music player has changed. It looks like an inbred cousin of iTunes. We feel no emotion towards it. Perhaps they wanted to keep up with Facebook and arbitrarily change stuff against people’s will.

Now, for a band to be a band, they have to have more than one individual. If not, you’re just a solo person. Sometimes, bandmembers will do their own thing and release an album full of tasty offerings. Our first ever trawl was Gay Against You, so we thought we’d let you know what one of the two members is now doing. Germlin’s solo stuff is very similar to his band project. And that’s why we like it – the songs are fun, chopped up and noisy.

All of the songs appear to be fresh slabs of musical meat for you to get your teeth into. Hopefully they will appear in some form on a second album, supposedly halfway through completion. Well that’s what we were told last year when this writer put on a gig featuring the Gay Against You project. That night had highs of broken equipment, dressing up in silly outfits and property destruction to lows of being shaken by the legs for money by the venue. But that’s another story.

Songs like Silky Tooth don’t sound particularly booty shaking, but somehow they do cause a stir in both legs. It may be short, but with this style of almost chaotic music, there’s no need to stretch it out for seven minutes while the DJ slips out for a ciggie. Obviously in some other genres of the electronic scene, the song would build, but with Germlin it’s head-on into action as you’re physically dragged through a frontline of drums that change pace at an alarming rate.

Exploring the creative boundaries a little further, a video for the unreleased song Scumbag is up. Quirky animation fits the pace of the song quite well. It’s almost like karaoke as words scroll on the screen to sing/screech/wail along to. No need to go down the local pub to watch wobbly women sing to Celine Dion.

Other online content features a Gay Against You performance! Hoorah, marvel at the semi-chaos a typical show causes. The bigger the crowd, the more chance you’ll find yourself roped into the show. But it’s all good, we promise.

It would be unfair to give one half of the band a mention. So, we’ll let you know about Yoko, Oh No! Likewise to Mr. Germlin, the music is bonkers electronic tunes with snippets of vocals about pools and swimming. If you like Germlin, you’ll like Yoko, Oh No! Well that is unless you hate all things electronic and only listen to music made of a guitar.

Following last week’s failure to mention Daz Sampson, we will er… lock ourselves away in a room and attempt to splice some trendy school rappings over a Germlin song. We assume it’ll be shit, so that’s your prior warning. But hey, we’ve listened to criticism and want to make you happy.

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