ELL10TT SH4RP / CARB0N - M0NSTER CURVE (1988)

It was the time, again, for guitar-centrism, axe-gods, urban dudes who shred. A day's required dose of percussive assault, melodic flight, and sonic density... a medicine best delivered on the strummable hand-held piano that is the guitar. There are days when lucid daydreaming occurs only when the head is stuffed with sound, when the cerebellum turns liquid and drips from the head holes, a result of the vibration of amplified metal strings.

30 years on, Sharp's Fibonacci-based minimalist experiments in rock continue to produce a rush of seratonin, a blissful, meditative state of quietude amidst the album's charging rhythm and unrelenting repetition.

Let it in to let it out...