Bride of No No
Atavistic
Vocalist and bassist AZ has emerged from the twisted mayhem of
her previous project, The Scissor Girls -- a legendary group of
Chicago-based No Wave avatars renowned for their eerie and bizarre
theatrics -- with a new venture known as Bride of No No. AZ
is quick to point out that Bride of No No is definitely a mature
group of musical equals and shouldn't be seen as her new backing
band. However, Bride of No No does take up many of the
Scissor Girls' initiatives, ambitions, and themes, both
improving on them and departing from them.
In the six tracks on their new LP, B.O.N.N. Apetit!, Bride of
No No regularly sacrifices clarity of expression for seemingly
stream-of-consciousness lyrical portraits of madness, nebulous clouds
of guitars, and the omnipresent backbone of stable drumming and bass.
The band enlisted such heavyweights as Elliot Dicks, John
Golden, Steve Albini, and Jim O'Rourke to help give
the recording the lacerating claws it needs, and you can hear their
presence on the album. Bride of No No may evoke memories of
God Is My Co-Pilot, UT, Vue (formerly known as
The Audience), and obscure Olympia acts like Kreviss
with their snarling idiosyncratic narratives which demand you to
pick up the liner notes and pore over the lyrics.
Much of the buzz around Bride of No No stems from their live
performances and their methods of challenging preconceived
notions about identity and assumptions about motivation and ideology.
The band has further encloaked its mixture of performance Art Brut
and punk noise mayhem in mistique and
intrigue by wearing full length tunics to literally mask their
identities, performing unnannounced, and using cryptic initials
to retain their personal anonymity. Definitely a band with more
to communicate than simply their music, Bride of No No promises
to continue evolving into a fearsome and irresistible entity.
Scott Bilby
last updated:
08/10/01
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