The Wrists' debut single, "Freak of Natures," came out this past month on the Indiana based die Stasi records. By the sound of it, they are a group of cyborg gorillas from Denton, Texas that are only let out of their cages once a day to suckle the tit of a 32 ounce bottle of Elmer's Glue. Their songs are a short pitch to say they sound like the SCREAMERS done a la' PIRANHAS. Forgoing the guitars altogether and going with a keyboard instead, they've got the same rabid lunatic racket of the latter, and the anthemic droid delivery of the former. The vocals are echoed and haunting, a prefect fit for the cataclysmic curtain of noise that falls behind it. On the A-side "Hatecrimes" has bass-lines that fall into the mechanical hum of the keyboards over a barren and hollow drum sound that can cause neurochemical failure in human brains. The absence of guitar is never apparent and it creates a sound that is odd and familiar at the same time. Maybe their fingers are too gawkishly robotic and burly to play a guitar, so they settled for bass guitar? You can pick one up here.
