Having just released their new Incoming Transmission EP, Seething Akira emerge from its four tracks to stand strong as possibly if not right now certainly in the future, the biggest UK rival to the likes of US bands brokeNCYDE and Hollywood Undead. Combining a blistering brew of electro, rap, dubstep and crunkcore, the Portsmouth band leaves the senses writhing in pleasure with their stark and intrusively blistered trance manipulations. Their EP is a frenzied surge of filthy sonic fingerings and distorted atmospheres thrust forth with a challenging imagination and punk attitude. The Incoming Transmission EP shows that Seething Akira may not be the finished article yet and is itself not quite flawless but the promise and striking pleasure it gives marks the band and their acclaim by the masses as an explosion just waiting to happen.
A trio on the EP but now a duo looking for a guitarist and drummer, Seething Akira forces the ear into attention from 
the off with a sampled storm and old easy listening radio sounds introducing Come Here****Chickens! Scathing scraping electronics tease and niggle to announce the forceful vocals of Kit Conrad with Charlie Bowes alongside as the band begins to bully the ear, the provocative distortions and disentangled sounds meshing with impressive ease for a startling effect. The track persistently switches and surprises with an aural slight of hand merging dub elements with caressing melodic play and hypnotic trance metal intensity into caustic rap brought with a screamo tint. Like a merger of Enter Shikari and Hollywood Undead without the need to persuade with open hooks and stereotypical rhythms the band waits until the climax to unleash their pent up energy in a rampage of infectious wantonness brought with scorched eastern promise and senses scrambling invention.
The track is the best on the release though closely pushed by the following Dead Rabbits. Another dramatic intro leads the ear into a more expected rap vocals delivery over epic strikes of sound as the atmosphere intensifies. The song is more ordered than the opener though always unpredictable and enterprising and though arguably it lacks the same contagion its oppressive intimidating breath makes it a song just as effective and compulsive.
The EP is completed by Even Angels Break Hearts and Neil Buchanan. The first is a stark social commentary brought with anger and defiance within a mellower yet striking weave of sounds. As the anger rises the track flexes its muscles with a darkening of its now oppressive intensity and ear seizing guitar invention. As with all the songs on the release the band brings an expansive yet concentrated assault on the senses with layers of synths and programming speared by disorientated beats to captivate and unsettle in equal measure, this particular song the most atmospheric and provocative of all. The second of the pair splatters the senses with a dark carnival swell of sound off of a child spoken intro. It then spends its whole four minutes jabbing and pinching nerves and synapses with biting heavy rhythms and snarling bastard intertwined sounds all soundtracked by a soaring electronic swarm of warmth. At times it reminds of Senser without ever revolting into a fully balanced song, but it is exactly the constant corruptive barracking of unconnected sounds, like a sonic version of walking on hot coals for the ear, which makes the song so exhilarating.
Seething Akira and the Incoming Transmission EP will not be for everyone but if the likes of the aforementioned brokeNCYDE, Hollywood Undead, Enter Shikari and Senser leave you twitching with pleasure then Seething Akira might induce you into a full on meltdown.
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RingMaster 22/06/2012
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