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This Microwave World
The Same Things Kill Your Kids
(How + Why, 2002)

by Thom White

Based out of Manchester, Texas, This Microwave World brings infectious riffage and groovage to your stereo system throughout their debut EP, The Same Things Kill Your Kids.

This is the electric wirey kind of groovage that winds up into a form fitting tightly in your back pocket. Humming and humming away, you can carry this melody wire about with you wherever fate may lead, humming and humming away.

The guitaring, vocaling, and keyboarding-keypunching are all quite good and groovy. Frontman Sean O'Neal provides a really great tune on "In Hospital," and vocalizes in a highly accentuated tenor to lend a most Thatcherite sensibility to the music.

O'Neal performs a beat surrender on the mic to synthesist Erin Mikulenka on the stand-out bass groove track "Coming Clean." The song features effective Atari 5200 computer bleeps in quadraphonic motion. The bleeps bond to make grand sounds from the outer reaches of space, warning blasts from our digital invaders of decades ago.

The drum machine does commendable, steady work alongside the four human members of the group as well, keeping the tempo continuous and on point at all points.

The beat machine most dominates on This Microwave World's eponymous track. In this final piece, the machine (programmed by Brandon Loe) creates an overriding ambience with a continuity many human drummers would find difficult to maintain, a marching beat that brings the listener by superhigh highway into the great state of hyperactive hypnosis.

This Microwave World

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