The Death Set - Worldwide
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Let's clear one thing up right away. If you favour more traditional song-structures, or enjoy bands that can actually play their instruments and have vocalists who can sing in key, or Arctic Monkeys are your idea of loud rock music, then The Death Set are definitely a group you'll be wanting to avoid. This Baltimore duo make unabashed snotty future-synth-punk quite how you imagine the Sex Pistols would sound if they had formed thirty years later.

At eighteen tracks, Worldwide is a brilliant headache of wild noise and a care-free attitude to music; anything goes basically, with most tracks lasting only around the 1 minute mark (the longest being a very modest 2 mins 24), yet still cramming in a wide pallette of ideas. Games consoles are kicked and stomped on, the vocalist has surely digested too much helium, ancient synths fight head-to-head with trashy guitars, beats swing from crap keyboard demos to barely-working drum machines. But it works and brilliantly too, as underneath this playful-mess are incredibly catchy songs with even catchier hooks.

But, The Death Set are in danger of bursting under the strain of their own creativity - just how do those brains still function with so many ideas at work? It's as though the band consists of a bunch of kids with ADHD, who have picked-up the instrument box from school and tried to make sure each and every one gets heard at some point on the record. Mental stuff - this will baffle, amuse, thrill and freak-out, all at the same time.

Worldwide Track Listing:

1. Solve It
2. Listen to this Collision
3. Negative Thinking
4. Intermission
5. Spaz
6. Cold Teeth
7. Around the World
8. Impossible
9. Superzero
10. Day in the Wife
11. Bla!
12. Moving Forward
13. MFDS
14. Had A Bird
15. Peak Oil
16. This Song
17. Heard It All Before
18. Selective Memories