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Title: Counterclockwork
Condition: New
Format: Vinyl
Genre: Rock
Artist: Xaddax
No Of Discs: 1
Record Label: Skingraft
EAN: 0647216610717
Description: EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Nick Sakes boasts one of those impeccable
underground rock track records. His discography to
date encompasses three brilliant, insular projects:
prog-minded post-hardcore nightmare merchants
Dazzling Killmen, cryptic art-punk psychos
Colossamite, and the skewed yet surprisingly tuneful
Sicbay. Now, more than two decades on from
Sakes recording debut, comes the part where we
inform you that the guitarist/shrieker has matured
and is prepping his first singer-songwriter record
or somesuch. Except that s entirely false Sakes
latest band Xaddax, a duo with drummer Chrissy
Rossettie, is as challenging and gloriously cathartic
as anything he s done to date.
Counterclockwork, the debut Xaddax release, is a
must-hear for any Nick Sakes fan, but what s most
impressive about the 25-minute LP is the way it
places his trademark livid howl in an entirely new
context. Working with a mad-scientist electroacoustic
drum set-up huge toms, no cymbals, various
sample-triggering pads, and a foot-controlled synth
pedal Rossettie pounds out lurching math-disco
rhythms haloed in scuzzy sci-fi FX. Sakes responds
with perversely anthemic riffs and mantra-like
shouts, resulting in a kind of hot-wired hardcore,
like Devo gone nastily dystopic.

REVIEW
Like Dave Brubeck s Time Out played through
Carcass PA system. –Alternative Press