scissor shock

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Hi. Scissor Shock is the musical project of award-winning filmmaker/novelist/painter/video game designer ADAM COOLEY. Watch his films at http://www.youtube.com/user/mradamcooley. Listen to his music at http://www.last.fm/music/Scissor+Shock. Add Scissor Shock as an interest on Facebook. Share Scissor Shock on torrents and blogs. Do whatever you want, who cares? If you'd like info about Adam's music, films, or whatever else, just msg on here. If you'd like copies of Adam's work, most of it is available on last.fm or youtube or whatever other fine sites but you can also buy some. Just msg on here. Thanks



SCISSOR SHOCK CAN'T BE DESCRIBED IN ONE WORD.

"Sounds really fucked up and strange. Good luck with that." - Alan Bishop/Alvarius B, Sun City Girls



"Some absolute damn fucked strangeness weirdos." - Climax Golden Twins



"That is some pretty mental shit you have going on there." - Large Mound



"I love it [.] I love to support the original." - Sasha Grey, adult entertainer



"Basically, look up 'avant garde' in the dictionary, and Scissor Shock should come up." - Alex VanHeinous



"Almost unclassifiable." - an editor at Foxy Digitalis



"The most fucked up shit I have heard, but in a good way!" - Aqua Bear



"If you are ever passing through Kent, Ohio." - Black Mayonnaise



"Insane dayglo digi-grind-splatter, like a battalion of attacking cassette players operated by cartoon mice advancing on your burg. Spastic drumming and hi-speed cassette catastrophe and razor-thin techno bleats are encoded in puzzle melodies and transmitted direct to your nervous system. Pretty shoegazer drones and electrocuted cut n' paste sweeten the cataclysm like Evil Dead on sugar overdose."

- Crucial Blast Records



"From the desolated town of Columbus, Indiana comes a [band] that pretends to strip all the instruments, notes and arrangements while leaving the bare essentials to the sounds of shoegaze, odd timed punk and noise, with disc scratches becomimg such a fundamental part of the songs as the sounds found within it. Like a computer that's willing to kill all humans decoding and recombining mp3s[.]" - Marcos Hassan, Switch Magazine Mexico



"I prefer the guitar driven stuff." - Bubblegum Octopus



"It will drive anyone looking for convention nuts." - Jose Angeles, MTVHell



"Some kind of weird abstract free jazz/progressive sound that seems to draw equally from noise."-Ice Ripper



"FUCKING OWN!" - Cory Monster, Kindergarten Hazing Ritual



"Love it." - Max, The Goslings



"Ahead of their time in every respect, and a band that gets very little respect; totally unconventional, uncompromising, and challenging art that seems to draw influences from everything but sounds like absolutely nothing. It's a crime that they haven't been recognized by bigger labels." - Alex, Ink and Dagger Zine



"Deconstructionist rock a la Captain Beefheart and U.S. Maple with a twist of lime." - Adam Rogers, Death in Kentucky Zine



"Ugly, embarassing, uncompromisng art." - Methamphetazine



"Ranging from yelping thrash to blast beat mayhem to nonsensical sound collage to spacey acoustic interludes, it's hard to discern what the band was aiming for. In any case Scissor Shock plays the most original- possibly the first- combination of trombone, drum machine, acoustic guitar, 303 acid loops and chimes heard yet, anywhere. The end result is such an affectionate homage to music that one can't help but admit that Scissor Shock succeeds by being wholly themselves. Perhaps if Half Japanese was reincarnated as Sissy Spacek this band *might* have some competition" - Casette Gods



"Elements of just about every form of music you can imagine -- but mainly jazz, electronica, and the more disquieting edge of ambient -- show up in the songs here, usually in short bursts and juxtaposed in bizarre fashion. They're definitely one of the more listenable bands in this frantic cut 'n paste audio electroshock arena. - One True Dead Angel



"Most of Scissor Shock's albums don't [.] have anything in common with each other [.] What began back in 2003 as a digital grind/noise solo project by Adam Cooley has mutated. and mutated and mutated and will probably continue to do so until Adam gives up." - Smooth Assailing



"Band-but-not-a-band sound employed by groups orbiting the outer rings of what might constitute noise rock. Artsy, yes. Weird, check." - The Static Fanatic Blog



"What is Scissor Shock? After long consideration, I still have no idea." - Music Semicolon Blog



"The singer looks like a foppish Mark E Smith, the guitarist wears a cape made out of paper on which is written Scissor Shock. I am listening and experiencing what sounds like The Shaggs after Derek Bailey joined em. Maybe Jaco Pastorious joined in somewhere too only he's had his thumbs cut off and he's playing the bass with his teeth. There's a horn blower but I think his lungs have collapsed and the singer sounds like a five year old asking for more pocket money in whiny voice. Most tracks sound like a speeded up Stump and are probably not the kind of thing you'd want playing at your funeral unless you are really and truly of the strange variety. But by then, I was smitten. Scissor Shock will go far. Maybe to the end of road and back. But what a trip. -" - Idwal Fisher



"The best live band I've ever seen." - Joe Harmon, the Conspirators



"I put [you] on and fall asleep." - Josh, Our Brother the Native



"It's kind of like super-annoying computer thrash, and that's not a bad thing." - Dan, Haunted Castle/Uneven Universe/Mossy Throats



"The best [band] of 2039." - Steev, Warmth/Roxanne Jean Polise



"Scissor Shock is without a doubt one of the most demential bands of our times." - Ruido Horrible



"Sonic equivalent to a heart attack." - Indieworkshop.com



"Total mayhem here of collaged together sounds of rock-noise like group playing, but also the speeding up of cassettes." - Vitalweekly



"[They] are one of those [bands] that makes me wonder 'what was this I put on?'" - Machetemob



"I really like it a lot." - Kyle, Robe./Black Cinema



"The exceptional microprocessor scratches inside the isolating wonder. The immortal blasts Scissor Shock across every ocean. Beneath an inappropriate aardvark vanishes the antidote." - The Alternate Industry En'Corporated



"The only band that makes me want a bad haircut over and over and over again." - Marcus, 8-Bit Jellyfish



".Like eating a ten strip of acid while smoking meth then getting electrocuted." - Robert Smith, The Cure



"Scissor Shock is a descent into madness. While the music plays, you dont know if you're gonna have a heart attack or get a brain tumor." - I Killed Techno



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