Instrumentals for the Mental

The title seems to be missing something, at least this is the impression of the reviewer. Somehow it would be nice to see the aspect of the 'mental' specified in at least some detail, but as the spelling does appear in this way on several pages on the Internet, it seems that it had been intended in such way.

Once all the confusion has been set aside, the music is actually easy to deal with. 'Instrumentals' should be taken literally and the reference to the American band 'Billy Crystal Meth' should be emphasized. Why? Well, the similarities are simply striking: there are the nice but strange samples, there is the general absence of vocals and once their releases are compared, one has to acknowledge that the music follows a somewhat strikingly similar pattern. Doom, thrash and sludge can be found throughout the tracks in certain limits and degree. Regular readers of this magazine might remember the band 'Hands I Annul Yours' from the same label and it seems like to be some kind of specialty of it. Well, as the music is crafted in such a way as to make the performance quite listenable and as the samples help to create some kind of amusing counterpoint, Generation Welfare's release is recommended to those who have fancy for music that is heavy like warship at one moment and swift as a ride on a motorbike at the other. Good to listen to if you have a fascination for this type of music.

Based on a review originally written for ‘A Dead Spot of Light (Number 17)’:
http://www.archive.org/details/ADeadSpotOfLight...Number17