Review Summary: Great trance, but can they Goa the distance?
No-nonsense, nonsensical, goofball psytrance. The paradox amuses. You will hear alien guinea pigs. You will hear a recording of anguished cries from someone being brutally tortured. It doesn’t make sense, only it does. The cover says it all: some aliens are inspecting you, and the process is disturbingly unorthodox. The goa psychedelia is enough to put an un-drugged human in a state of chaotic, numbed confusion. A statement true to all goa trance, though this album will *** your senses at times when you least expect it.
Supporting every track is a solid, and very stable psytrance beat. These beats have surrounding increased noise, and wonky effects building. However, ambient breaks gently waft in when desperately needed. Well, gentle as a drugged stupor, but transition-wise they’re cleverly calculated. While the album is a tad predictable, the unpredictable synth vomitfalls and selected voice recordings are sure to string you along.
This album is fairly fun, definitely catchy, and somehow not too obscure. It’s a great goa trance album to play in a club, despite uncomfortable sections. In another note, every track feels completely different. Psytrance is a very repetitive genre, and it takes creative artists to tweak ways to keep people interested in the same seven minute beats tossed throughout an album. Guinea Pigs gets close to having something truly special here, but as the album plays it out, it becomes less unique. The same wonky effects and alien ideas begin to feel quite routine. Still, the album is worth checking out because it is a well put-together release.
