Senex

What is there to say about Thrones that isn't already said by the music? It's weird, experimental, weird and experimental stuff. Joe Preston, armed with a distorted bass guitar, drum machine and vocoders wild, aims to bring you some of the strangest music ever put to tape, and in some cases, the scariest. Senex, a 1995 EP from his efforts as Thrones, definitely does this. It just suffers from one thing.

It is so unbelievably repetitive, to the point of being ad nauseum.

Senex itself is a song that originated from his 1994 PNMV demo tape, which was the untitled Side B. It's been changed a bit, mostly cutting out a lot of the horrific ear-destroying electronic bits, but the entire song is just the same two riffs. Not even over and over again, like they change, no. Almost exactly one half of the song's length is the first riff, and the other half is the second. There is some variation in the drum machine here and there, and the occasional heavily vocoded passage in the first half, but it just sounds like ambient gibberish to add to the droning boringness of hearing the same thing over and over again. The second riff is much darker, with vocoded vocals that sound almost tortured. At least the last minute of the song changes it up and sounds kind of brutal, because the rest of it is just too damn long.

Silvery Colorado barely deserves mention - it's just really warped, distorted music and vocals, and is the purest definition of "weird filler track necessary for two-sided record." Not good.

While this certainly gets across the point of what Joe wanted to do, I doubt it's what the average listener of even weirder music like Thrones would want to experience for nine minutes. If you really want to hear it, buy Day Late, Dollar Short as it has these two tracks and many more. It sounds gritty, it sounds nasty, it's certainly what Joe wants it to be, but the music is just too boring.