Issue #64 - Kamasi WashingtonMothers
Render Another Ugly Method
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Sep 11, 2018
Issue #64 - Kamasi Washington
If you missed the Mothers hype two years ago, chances are you forgot that Athens’ biggest deal in the blogosphere existed. No problem: these slowcore web-weavers aren’t even the same band anymore. Where the debut traipsed along on eggshells with Kristin Leschper’s perennially defeated poetry and tiny guitars, Render Another Ugly Method wraps her in opaque funeral shrouds. The band heaves through songs like “Baptist Trauma” and “Mutual Agreement” with deliberate consternation, as if Leschper’s monotone dialogues weigh tons. “Mother and Wife” is even a literal dirge, a Leonard Cohen-esque slab where our protagonist surrenders to the inevitable: “the bed I was born in/the mattress I could die with.”
Granted, while Leschper draws out every last word, the rest of Mothers don’t drag their feet the entire time. The clear winner, 7-minute opus “Pink,” batters down your stereo like Bauhaus covering Brian Eno; “Blame Kit” tiptoes from complex clockwork to ballerina stances. But even then, Leschper remains a difficult front-person to love—throughout Render Another Ugly Method, she fixates on transcending her own body, with the implied assumption that being female is some sort of curse. “Show me a beauty routine/to erase me completely,” she moans on opener “Beauty Routine,” as if makeup weren’t a form of self-expression. Just parsing out Leschper’s point at any given time feels like a scum-scrubbing chore. And it is—for, in the end, Render Another Ugly Method is merely the calcified misery of a young woman who can’t reach outside herself. (www.mothers.bandcamp.com)
Author rating: 3/10
Average reader rating: 1/10
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