SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: CAUSTIC – BUGGY

CAUSTIC
BUGGY
INDEPENDENT

Caustic’s new single “Buggy” is a delicious, dark, dystopian dub… direct from DJ Matt Fanale. Industrial electronica with a solid, deep foundation sprinkled with lighter specks of unexpected melody. It’s cool. The cover art to the first single, “Buggy”, is that of a mildew, mouldy drain, likened to a dirty bathroom, which elicits flashing imagery of a giant German cockroach. Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis comes to mind, but to be fair, the art is a little misleading due to the tranquility I found in the tracks.

Said to be “heavily influenced by dark industrial dub”, I would pull that thread further and argue that there is a lightness; by no means are you left feeling intimidated or threatened; the tracks captured on this single make you feel invigorated and amped to navigate the anxiety of peak hour traffic or fight the final boss at the end of an epic adventure – whatever journey you choose.

Other tracks like “Weed Santa” capture the contrast between light and dark; it’s weirdly cathartic, delivering a sense of relaxation, unexpected. “PRVRT” offers Caustic’s humorous lyrical style, “I’m a pervert but not the bad kind”, taking the piss out of like-minded degenerates. The voice is exactly what you’d imagine of a dude in a full-length trench coat; the lyrics reek of deviance, sticky.

I like this single, it’s not just the dub heads out there.

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