A disorientating chant dissolving in and out of roaring distortion: two voices- one male and one female- yelp and howl or coo and soothe. Feedback interrupts the taut rhythm guitar, keyboards float away into space rock trances. The bass guitar clunks and groans, band and singer seem to race each other to the end of the song. Enon’s opening track ‘Mirror on You’ is an exhausting introduction to their playful thrash art-rock.
Half way through this short album, Enon do calm down- ‘Pigeneration’ is a measured and scathing assault, and closer ‘Ashish’ fades to melancholy- but ‘Grass Geysers… Carbon Clouds’ takes a mid-eighties New Wave template and feed it through Sonic Youth effects. A rare combination of joy and noise- unlike many British bands who equate experimentation with dour faced intensity- Enon hammer through styles and genres, picking up the torch that My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus and Mary Chain dropped.
A sure sense of melody- covered in a patina of distortion, naturally- holds this album together. Although they come off at times as a less psychedelic Melt Banana, Enon forge a distinctive space in the tradition of hard rockers who can recognise and subvert a pop tune.