Highly praised full-length from Thumpermonkey (the pants and bedroom years).
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| Track Title | Duration | Filesize (MB) | Bitrate (kbps) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Tv Theme for a Miniseries about Disillusioned Jewish Americans | 01:22 | 2.31 | 224 | |
| 2. | Delivery VS Payment | 03:24 | 5.73 | 224 | |
| 3. | Alpha Romeo | 03:22 | 5.67 | 224 | |
| 4. | How I Wrote the French Lieutenant's Woman | 5.2 | 224 | ||
| 5. | Wheezyboy | 04:56 | 8.30 | 224 | |
| 6. | Copper | 03:26 | 5.78 | 224 | |
| 7. | I Am Han Solo, Frozen In Carbonite | 03:10 | 5.34 | 224 | |
| 8. | Transgenic Mouse Xenotransplant | 05:36 | 9.42 | 224 | |
| 9. | 4444 | 04:40 | 7.86 | 224 | |
| 10. | Hitchhikers Might Be Escaping Inmates | 05:22 | 9.03 | 224 |
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Year:
2004 
Indistinguishable from genius
www.splendidzine.com
Splendid > reviews > 12/22/2004
A mad symphony of the bizarre, a bipolar freak-out of the mentally corrupt, Thumpermonkey puts a capitol "E" on eclectic. Wielding in one hand a vocabulary that rivals even The Decemberists' resplendent vernacular in its predilection for obscure verbiage, and wild, schizophrenic instrumentation in the other, Pig Heart ferociously attack a unique sonic beast, gracing the tentacles they sever with titles like "Transgenic Mouse Xenotransplant".
Thumpermonkey bounces relentlessly off of rubber walls with a madness that's indistinguishable from genius. There's an opportunity here to find out who really cares about you -- any real friend will have you committed if you play "I Am Han Solo Frozen In Carbonite" for them. Make sure to dance really hard all the way to the asylum. Pig Heart have made the album such a no-brainer purchase for fans of off-kilter and truly insane music that these special people can be trusted to seek it out on their own -- even after the lobotomy.
ALBUM OF THE MONTH - MICROWAVING LIGHT BULBS CAN BE FUN
www.unpeeled.co.uk
Thumpermonkey “Pig Heart” (Tapewyrm Records)
There are, I find, two distinct types of ‘experimental’ music. There’s yer crap, usually a load of mis-matched toss put out by people who can’t actually play or write and then there’s this… Thumpermonkey, exciting, exhilarating and manic in a way that assorted preachers can only dream of. Take the frantic and fascist tight “Delivery Vs Payment”, the lovely sound of a metal growler having his throat scrubbed with razor wire while the backing is, and this is, I presume, the experimental bit, fucking excellent speed-pop-metal zippery, talking of zippery, probably an unconscious thing because the nearsest that Thumpermonkey come to a soundalike is Joyzipper.
In toto, “Pig Heart” is a stunningly successful experiment in sound, all sorts of sound in all sorts of odd combinations and like all frantic genius style projects it’s bursting with hundreds of amazingly little vignettes that have all had to be incorporated into a mere ten tracks. Yes, it can be frustrating to hear bits of brilliance casually discarded for the next, but I’d rather have this blitz of sound than any set of verse-chorus humdrummery, besides, there are odd oases of uninterrupted cogence, like “How I Wrote The French Lieutenant’s Woman” & “4444”, plus the odd mutant like “Wheezyboy” that only go through a few major phases.
Truly, a brilliant album and you are urged to go to www.thumpermonkey.com to hear for yourself.
Moments of brilliance
www.universalmetropolis.com
Originally published on 05/11/2004
'While tracks like Han Solo remind us of his sense of humour and moments like Copper or 4444 exhibit his extraordinary range as a musician and new media composer, Wheezyboy is such a solid track that is so convincing in its moments of brilliance that is almost frightening'