Anaesthetic

futuristic punk?:
Although not as rocking and widespred as I anticipated it to be, Milemarker's Aneasthetic is still an entertatining venture into postpunk new wave and lyric experimentation. The thing that I disliked about the album is that certain songs had chords repeated endlessly with very little innovation, where they could've easily blown the seams but kept riding. Aside from this, and the fact that it only has 7 songs at 45 minutes, it's still a cool adventure. The standouts for me are "A Quick Trip To The Clinic", where the male lead singer narrates a tale of getting turned on by the nurse...; "Ant Architect", all about creating a virtual city with all the tentalating prospects; "The Installment Plan", which appears to be about destruction and such, is one of the more angstish on the record. Roby makes interesting vocal patterns on "Food For Worms" (high pitched falsetto, sort of like Portishead or Tori Amos) and "Lost The Thoughts.." (nasal glam cabaret, which makes the track one of the coolest sounding), but these are also the hardest to understand cause the lyrics get jumbled...

tough to say:
i pretty much am biased because i absolutely loved these brains that are milemarker. they have the ability to send me places i could only dream about. roby's vocals send chills and warmth all through me and their live shows leave you with a sense of self depreciation thats only visible by your hanging jaw and pools of drool. not for everybody

anaesthetic:
People just seem to have no idea of how to react to this record, and totally freak out about it being placid or droning, or "commercial." But that's the whole thing, really: it is produced a bit differently than most of their other records, and it is ineffectual and sterile-sounding. Most of the lyrical content of the record seems to parellel this same theme: epic songs about the sterility of modern life and the eventual full-on take over of a world in which psychiatric medicine is the panacea for all of its inherent problems: "we can bask in the glow of the new synthetic sun/ the casket you know is the most comfortable one," etc. This is, I think, a post-modern masterpiece, and a record which deserves a second look, if only to find the lyric sheet, which you actually have to pry the cd apart to find. Get it?

Soooo good:
Man I love this record, come on guys it's all pink! ALL OF IT! there is not a spot of non pink on it, except for the white of the Pegasus and a some writing. That was a pleasant suprise, it's quite "athsetically" pleasing OH! Anyways dude I love this album, it's kinda dancable you'd have to admit but not in a DISCO way. I hate DISCO music or new wave, this is not new wave, it's NO wave get it right! This is sweet, it is sweet like sweet victory, it tastes like victory, this is the sounds of you and your bro slapping five. Man if this was on a skateboard video I'd tottally flip out, I'd like shake my boy and be like "dood it's MileMarker!" Oh this is as good as a impossible 360 over a picnic table, land too! Man this is almost as good as that time when me and my boys were all hanging out skating and like four of these hot skater chicks came over, and dood let's just say you better be glad I wasn't wearing gym shorts! But brah really don't listen to me, I only know the simple pleasures of life, like nailing that trick on my board and catching teners. My words just can't really tell you how good this thing is, I mean like I don't know but it's really good. I love it how they tell me to shrink to fit, man shrink to fit that wave so you can ride the pipe brah, ALRIGHT!

Pink!:
Although the album is entirely pink with Pegasus on the cover, the music is anything but cute. Although not as brutal as their previous releases, it is their most solid material to date. Roby has fully stepped from behind the light board and helped Milemarker acheive a mildly ominous sound (which does reflect the time). The lyrics shoot straight to the point without falling into the trap of trying to be creative. The words seem effortless and the tone matches the mood of the music. A listen to "Ant Architect" confirms all of this. Although it did take me a few listens to appreciate it, those of you who have never heard of Milemarker before will probably like it.