Motosierra - XXX

All Music Guide

You only react when XXX is over. A nervous exhalation, like after a tazer to the chest or a sudden plunge through a leftopen manhole. The debut album from Uruguay's Motosierra is less than a halfhour. But it's crammed with violation, loss, sex, coke, payback, fire, and "Hijos del Rigor," and it makes you feel like looking for action. After you recover, of course. Motosierra kicks out dynamic songwriting in favor of spitfire drum fills and "I'll never die" distortion screams ("Rocker"). They begin "FUCK" with tinny radio transmissions the sound of a regular day in Uruguay? which are promptly drowned out by out by a deafening bass/guitar stomp as fierce as anything 1980s DC hardcore had to offer. They don't let up. Each one of "Please Kill Me"'s 52 seconds is explosive and vital, and "No le Digas a Mama" channels the album's blistering consistency into a punk anthem with winning lead guitar and punctuating "Hey Hey Hey" backing vocals. Motosierra are outsiders in their own country. In... interviews, they go on and on about how uptight and generally nonrock things are Uruguay. However, the band is also part of a worldwide sect of outsider rockers. Types like Motörhead and Turbonegro, G.G. Allin and the Dwarves, all of whom long ago traded compromise for party favors. It's fitting that both Motosierra and the Dwarves contributed covers of "Hobbit Motherfuckers" to the 2001 Turbonegro tribute album Turbonegro Tribute: Alpha Motherfuckers. - Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide Read more Less