Tera Melos's brand of math-rock carries with it some of the hyperactivity and brightness of 5ive Style (if you retain somewhere in your memory of everything Sub Pop ever released a faint echo of 5ive Style) although in a variety of ways this comparison is both misleading and insufficient. There's no lonesome organist, for starters. There is, however, a very big sense of fun at the heart of these time signature-meanderings, guitar-warpings and knob- twiddlings. In some ways, they might better resemble 5ive Style's relative, Tortoise. Except that's a lame comparison, too.
There seems to be no hesitation in this band, while they briefly coast downhill in neutral to conserve (you think) some gasoline, to throwing the transmission straight into fifth gear, possibly without fully depressing the clutch. Hold on tight as the whole machinery shakes and convulses, because they'll shift back down into a more accommodating gear soon enough. But don't get comfortable. Tera Melos don't stand still. They'll jam you back into fourth in a second. They don't even put gaps between tracks. It's a helter- skelter twenty minutes of situpandlisten hyperactive instrumental fun.
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