{"id":501,"date":"2013-12-04T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T14:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=501"},"modified":"2013-12-13T13:20:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T18:20:01","slug":"primitive-calculators-the-world-is-fucked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/primitive-calculators-the-world-is-fucked\/","title":{"rendered":"Primitive Calculators <br>The World Is Fucked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/primtivecalculators.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-502\" alt=\"Primitive Calculators, The World Is Fucked\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/primtivecalculators.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/primtivecalculators.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/primtivecalculators-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>As the Primitive Calculators see it, the world is fucked, thanks to the degeneracy of Homo sapiens as a result of the gluttony of technological enslavement and the glamour of social media cachet. Need more proof? Try sitting through the Australian gang\u2019s so-named, 35-years-in-the-making studio debut without feeling a tad cynical (or queasy) in the end. From the moment the flag drops, you\u2019re sucked into its whirlpool of pigfucked savagery and punk slobber while its cruddy snout breathes down your neck every step of the way. The best you can do is hold on tight and pray that the next pit stop is just around the bend. It\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Sprung from the Melbourne suburbs in 1978, the band remained outsiders within the Australian music scene during their two-year existence, with only a 7-inch and a live recording to show for it. The Calculators came out of hibernation briefly in 1986 to perform in the campy Australian drama, <i>Dogs in Space<\/i> (starring INXS&#8217; Michael Hutchence), before crawling back into dormancy until 2009, when Nick Cave invited them to perform at the All Tomorrow\u2019s Parties festival in Victoria, proving that luckily their influence was not completely swept under the rug in the wake of their inactivity.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">One of the distinguishing qualities throughout the Calculators\u2019 history has always been their perplexity. Looking at the covers of the band&#8217;s few releases, you have no idea what you\u2019re getting yourself into beyond their billboards of chunky white font and black background. You are ultimately forced to dive headlong into the motion sickness and experience it as an unbiased first-timer. The same goes for <i>The World Is Fucked<\/i> (Chapter Music), which upon first impression, offers practically no explanation to the analytical eye beyond a pile of single-worded tracks (although \u201cCunt\u201d and \u201cDeath\u201d might be dead giveaways).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">While the Calculators\u2019 unproductiveness over the years is rather immense, age certainly hasn\u2019t worn them down one bit. If anything, it\u2019s made the group sound even more sinister than their earlier recordings. Songs such as \u201cPain\u201d and \u201cGod\u201d teem with the synth-punk voltage of American weirdo acts like Nervous Gender and The Units, while the squirming electronic fuckery of \u201cWhy\u201d matches Throbbing Gristle\u2019s industrial splooge with Pere Ubu\u2019s protopunk shock. For leftovers is the steamrolling snarl of \u201cLove,\u201d which finds singer Stuart Grant raving over what turns him on. \u201cYour eyes, your legs, your mouth, your spit,\u201d he growls over a fumy exhaust of throttle and scorch. It\u2019s a heartwarming affair just shy of flagrancy and nausea.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">To sugarcoat the Calculator\u2019s music would be as unrighteous as reviving the videotape for modern day society to chew on. It\u2019s just not going to happen. What is evident when trying to digest the band\u2019s nine-track slaughter on <i>Fucked <\/i>is a glaring piss-take for songwriting in general. Their approach hinges on abrupt pandemonium, like a bulldozer joyriding through a mass of curious onlookers. The record is a bulletproof testimonial to punk as summed up in its sheer vileness and disdain for conventional standards. The guitars and synths grind and heave with a motor engine lewdness while the percussive element clonks in a relentless thud. While the Calculators\u2019 attack has always been, for the most part, a one-dimensional bludgeoning of shrill instrumentation, it\u2019s a hell of a way to finally make a statement on an official recording.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Primitive Calculators see it, the world is fucked, thanks to the degeneracy of Homo sapiens as a result of the gluttony of technological enslavement <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,193,192],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-chapter-music","tag-primitive-calculators"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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