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Last Updated: Oct 16th, 2008 - 13:33:17 |
The Limbs are one part Frank Zappa, one part Leonard Cohen and one part Modest Mouse, only with ten times less manpower.
The band’s unique moniker refers to frontman John Mazzucco’s bandmembers: “Right foot, left foot, right arm, left arm, throat and heart. Oh, and I use my guitar neck as a drumstick on the hi-hat.”
Wild-eyed and writhing (limbs flailing, if you can imagine), Mazzucco takes the whole sideshow aspect of his performance to a whole new level. The Limbs are no novelty act, mind you, but rather a brilliantly dark display of hollow-sounding and haunting compositions backed by the busy man’s morose lyricism .
The Limbs’ new album Boo The Villain features a rather crazed, desperate and downright creepy picture of Mazzucco that’s most fitting of his music’s sinister nature. While Mazzucco has an obvious sense of humor, seen not only in his quirky, aneuristic deliverance but in lyrics that list Robin Williams among the world’s deities, his real niche is in painful contemplation, with songs such as “It’s Not Very Kind,” “The Story of You and Me” and “The Undertow,” in which the defeated voice of The Limbs strains “If we could make a million bucks, bud, we’d lose it in the undertow.”
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