Search - Xinlisupreme :: Tomorrow Never Comes

Like old megadeth album titles on shoddy cassettes

Nathan W. Walker | delray beach, fl United States | 02/25/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"xinlisupreme's album title tomorrow never comes is a damaged-pitch perfect description of what is contained therein. functional anti-nostalgia, it is what the excavation of a multitude of lost possible futures sounds like, too bitter to be sad. an amalgamation of faded utopian promises, outmoded strategies and technologies, fragments that will never collect into a coherent whole: a pile of cold war refuse up for auction because the purpose for which it was made no longer exists. like if all the nuclear warheads buried in the desert became sad and then resentful that care and love is no longer exercised on their behalf. sort of like that. most reviews of this album reference the j+m chain, mbv, e.n., suicide, killing joke, japanese noise damage, etc. etc. to this i would add some congenital haunting of the beatles, like if the orchestral ending to a day in the life kept building until it effectively ate up everything in its path, like if tape-loop experiments had utterly derailed revolver never to return, like if what charles manson had heard in the white album could be combined with what philip k. dick had heard in the white album and it was committed to tape in some alternate reality. more than any direct sound-influence however, it is more an unsystemic refutation of the possibility of communal engagement in limitless enterprise unfolding into a better tomorrow. this is pop music for the end of history where that claim is uncovered for the sham that it is. like the hangover on sunday morning which interferes with your ability to recollect what happened the night before, and the day passes before it can ever turn into something on its own. that said, all you need is love is not true is both beautiful and true, impassive and heartbreaking in its refusal."

Violent sweetness

igavethecatacid | Auckland, New Zealand | 06/15/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"xinlisupreme are the best new act out of japan in years. they take the sweetest little melodies, wrap them in sheets of noise like barbed wire and bash you in the face with them. gently. this jumps all over the place from harsh noise concealing little perky stadium rock flourishes to distorted early nineties shoegaze anthems.the main thing is its really sweet and charming. but brutally violent in parts. and worth a wad of your hot, sweaty cash for sure.the murder license EP is worth taking a gander at but this is where the real gems lie."