Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood - Goodbye
Digitalis11.03.6 by Keith Boyd

Brothers and Sisters! That’s what we’re dealing with here. If your life is such that you are a brother to a sister or a sister to a brother then you’ll have an inkling of what I’m talking about here. Brothers and Sisters. Is there any relationship as intertwined, close, distant and just plain weird as that? You know each other so well and yet you don’t know each other at all. You compete for the essential elements of life (parental attention, space, food even) for so long that you kind of hate each other. You endure so many of life’s conundrums together (moving, death’s in the family, traditions) that you love each other. In other words it’s a wonderful mess. Given the intricacies and pitfalls of sibling relationships I always find it a wonder when brothers and sisters collaborate in a musical act together.
The Australian duo, “Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood” are doing just that. After releasing many limited edition CD-r’s they’ve finally brought out this, their first full length disc and it is some crazy stuff. It’s a dense shrapnel spitting and fuzzed out mess. When I say mess I mean mess in the best sense of the word. The fireworks start in with track 1 but what’s lovely is that underneath the fist sized chunks of distortion and gristle there resides a freaky and fried folk rock. At times this element seems to break through the dense sonic goo only to be swallowed whole and melted down into pure fuzz. This album rocks! It’ s just one great big stoned good time.
A mess of love and hate firing on all cylinders all of the time. Just like brothers and sisters.