Super-tight, super-loud angular start-stop guitar rock -- blistering little fills and arpeggios shuddering around the curves, snapping at right angles -- flipping from fast to less-fast, from 4/4 to ?/? on a dime -- islands of backbeat in seas of frenetic mess.
Obvious shades of Fang Island, Dananananakroyd, Ponytail, Deerhoof - but those bands all gave soul to the chaos by putting a human voice in the mix, even if it was just soaring exaltation or wordless yelp-squeal. Hell, even Lightning Bolt's mic-in-mouth barking helped bring the beat of a vicious black heart.
Pneu's all instrumental, and the work's impressive. Thrilling in small doses. And in the radio-scan waves of micro-songs there're some fleeting gems. And hell, maybe throwing out every structural signpost and rhythmic guideline without giving any kind of access to the humans behind the noise is a special kind of punk rock move. But it makes the whole thing sound soulless, and gives you no reason to listen other than to admire their start/stop chops 3/5
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