{"id":13436,"date":"2020-09-22T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13436"},"modified":"2020-09-23T09:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T09:45:26","slug":"mommy-sez-no-the-dwellers-below-self-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13436","title":{"rendered":"Mommy Sez No \u2013 \u2018The Dwellers Below\u2019 (Self Released)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s been over a decade since I first discovered that even when Mommy Sez No you can still get your musical kicks from a trashy, crypt-cool beat combo souring airwaves with its self-soiled brand of \u201cSpook \u2018n\u2019 Roll.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From debut splatter platter, \u2018Hotwaterburnbaby\u2019, via the putrid poetry of follow-up, \u2018Eeeeeeeeep!!!\u2019, to the 2-4-5 Trioxin-addled new album, \u2018The Dwellers Below\u2019, the Saint Paul, Minnesota ghouls Mommy Sez No have traversed the gutters and gateways of the punk rock underground for so long that you\u2019d probably be excused for thinking that this was a band destined to be stumbled across when lovingly fingering your wholly unfashionable physical media collection; the cobwebs blown from a disc or two decaying in the creepy corner labelled \u2018Where Are They Now?\u2019 But, no \u2013 this six-legged monstrosity (Jeff Arndt on guitar and vocals; Alex Smith on drums; Thomas White on bass) is back in the hunt; better, stronger, faster than it was before.<\/p>\n

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Okay, the enhancement might not be bionic, but it\u2019s by some other ungodly advancement that finds the horror punk veterans kicking lumps out of the opposition with a thirteen-track (what else?!) long player that, actually, doesn\u2019t play for that long given its frenetic pace, but oozes with a gooey, unexpected slap of, dare I say it, maturity.<\/p>\n

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Looking cooler-than-thou wearing its wraparound artwork skin courtesy of fellow Minnesota mayhem maker, artist Bill Hauser (creator of many a striking punk rock album cover), \u2018The Dwellers Below\u2019 takes the lowbrow splatter punk of Mommy Sez No out of the garage and into, well, at least the garage forecourt. With better production, better artwork, better just about everything to be honest, this is the band\u2019s most accomplished work to date… but fear not horror punk purists, this record is still a wretched hive of scum and villainy.<\/p>\n

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From opening cut, \u2018Take Me To The Hospital\u2019, to the power ballad, \u2018Maggots In Yer Guts\u2019, via the chaos of \u2018Hahahahahahaha\u2019, Mommy Sez No is still as subtle as a killing spree and as manic as a final girl chase scene. The big difference is that the band doesn\u2019t stumble at all throughout the entirety of this album.<\/p>\n

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Even when introducing more straight-ahead rock \u2018n\u2019 roll strut to the tracklisting with the likes of \u2018Lil Bit Of Voodoo\u2019, \u2018Rock And Roll Death Patrol\u2019 and the alternate reality KISS riff-led \u2018Uh Oh… I Think…\u2019 the band still has that unnerving way of making the listener feel like they need a good wash after partaking in an auditory exercise; the songs to die for (possibly literally) rather than a diversion.<\/p>\n

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The aforementioned artwork may give off a sense of the post-apocalyptic (doesn\u2019t everything these days?!) but the album still has a hoof or two in the band\u2019s tried, tested, and tortured peculiar amalgam of straight-to-video horror and no-budget punk rock… except there is a budget these days, but that shouldn\u2019t put you off; think the upgrade from The Evil Dead to Dead By Dawn \u2013 better everything, but with that same, fierce independent spirit. \u2018The Dwellers Below\u2019 is a crazed, ass-kicker of an album that will easily force its way into my Top Ten albums list of a crazy, asshole of a year. Recommended.<\/p>\n

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Author: Gaz Tidey<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been over a decade since I first discovered that even when Mommy Sez No you can still get your musical kicks from a trashy, crypt-cool beat combo souring airwaves with its self-soiled brand of \u201cSpook \u2018n\u2019 Roll.\u201d     From debut splatter platter, \u2018Hotwaterburnbaby\u2019, via the putrid poetry of follow-up, \u2018Eeeeeeeeep!!!\u2019, to the 2-4-5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1787,5854,5853,1818,2266,1710,1701],"class_list":["post-13436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-jeff-arndt-on-guitar-and-vocals-alex-smith-on-drums-thomas-white-on-bass","tag-mommy-sez-no-the-dwellers-below","tag-new-album","tag-pop-culture-schlock-365","tag-rpm-online","tag-tcb","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13453,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436\/revisions\/13453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}