S.C.U.M- Again Into Eyes

This album is the proof in the pudding that a bunch of people with imaginative concepts and not much idea what direction to go in or how to play their instruments can be picked up and turned into a production dream.

It sounds a lot like S.C.U.M have been on a shit-load of acid and the entire album is a lot like the feeling you got when Portishead produced The Horrors ‘Primary Colours’ and stripped them completely of any rawness or original live sound, but that doesn’t mean ‘Again into eyes’ will not have a niche. This album will have a big cult following in underground warehouse parties where people drip food dye onto projectors and people walk around in rags selling $2 cans of beer.
Expectations were high on this one with people like Ken and Joylan Thomas (M83, Sigur Ros, Psychic TV) and Jim Sclavounos (Nick Cave & The Badseeds, Sonic Youth, Teenage Jesus) helping produce ‘Again Into Eyes’ and after touring the U.K and Europe with The Kills you get the idea that S.C.U.M have a pretty decent following.
The record does manage to keep a consistent flow with most of the songs showing a common cosmic theme touching on religion and all things large and unexplainable and the instrumentation can be quite beautiful with long flowing soundscapes and beautiful use of electric guitar and synth, the track ‘Whitechapel’ is particularly lovely, but it would probably be better to see live or on a lot of drugs if you find it difficult to appreciate long-winded alternative electronic similar sounding threads of music.
Raging alts though, will froth from the knees for this one, so if you are feeling spacey and want people to think you are cutting edge, buy this and explain to the internet how deeply it touched you, you’ll probably get laid out of it.

By Alexandra McIntyre