Steve Gilmore Reviews: Pilesar - No Good For Eyeballs

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Artist: Pilesar
Title: No Good For Eyeballs

Ever since I reviewed Just a Turtle (September 2004) Pilesar has been essential listening here at Gilmore Towers. From his incredible rock work with Mandible, the dissonance and electronic fuckry of Mosquito Death Squadron and the electronica/experimental supergroup Pulord, Pilesar has shown that he is a (mad)man among pygmies. All this from a guy who labours under the influence of (and I quote) 'sleep deprivation, abandonment issues, feelings of inadequacy, hunger, and student loan debt' Seems to me that whatever he gets involved with Pilesar shows again and again just how unique and wonderful the world of Pilesar is. As a much acclaimed experimental artist, it's a sure bet that Pilesar is not going to be to everyones taste but he certainly fulfills all my wacko needs and when he teams up with fellow loony Guanoman in Pulord, ANYTHING can happen...

Over the year and a half I have known him I have listened to almost everything this incredibly prolific artist has dished up to his unsuspecting public and liked (if not exactly understood) almost everything I have heard. For me to say that about a so called experimental artist is truly mind boggling but there again Pilesar is no ordinary mortal. No Good For Eyeballs was written, recorded and mixed in one day for the Album a Day site CrapArt which is so popular amongst internet weirdos it has an amazing 268 albums already on the site. It's obviously a given that some of them are indeed 'crap art' but I'm not so sure all of them are. After all, as I know only too well, it IS possible to pull together something like this AND have it sound reasonable - despite what some 'perfectionists' may think.

I have to say that it would be best to wear knee and elbow pads and a sturdy helmet when listening to this sub-emo track because it rattles along at a billion miles per second. Yes, I know that you are going to look pretty silly while doing that, but silliness has always been an essential feature of this artists output so I feel if you are going to do a job properly, you might as well go the whole hog. I should also say that you'll need a pretty strong musical stomach to take this in though because it is about as rough and ready as is comes and if the sounds of porn is a problem to you, best to avoid the end because oh oh oh oh yeeeeessssss it's a bit on the naughty side. Whichever side of the fence you come down on with experimental, Pilesar is there complete with his bag of tricks and although I wouldn't EVER want to play this to my Mommy, I may well keep a copy with me for reference. A slight bit of fun yes, but entertaining for all that....

Pilesar. Apply liberally for those grey, gloomy periods when life just plain sucks....