Milk TV

With 'NEO-GEO', a new album on Brussels label Exag Records (You Said Strange, Frankie), the trio take their music to even more versatile playgrounds. Recorded following a long tour, the nine tracks on this album form an astonishing art-rock kaleidoscope, perhaps more intuitive and effective than its predecessor. While the band's trademark bass chorus and jerky rhythms with a hint of exotica (the talking-heavy 02 6.O.4.N.C.8) are still present, some tracks give way to a more punky, immediate energy (Run To Buy Vacuum, Ascendant Of The Jugular Vein). Among them, Shell Fantasy, a dark, haunting ballad, is more reminiscent of the heady gimmicks of Wire or Crack Clouds. The album closes with the hypnotic Murmuur and its final development, all repetition and experimentation, leaving you free to imagine the intensity of this record on stage.