Kill the Giants specializes in making music for television, and their fusion of beatbox, world music (particularly Indian and Arabic vocals) and heavy guitar can be intoxicating. I can hear how this stuff would lend itself to the right moment on a show.

Kill the Giants For the Gold (Nub Music)

This hearkens back to the sampler-driven DJ works of the 90s (think Propellerheads), but Kill the Giants is at once more rock oriented and weirder. Some of the songs simply don't have a discernible focal point and just throw together almost criminally catchy blips and babbles. If you have a high tolerance for such things, this will hit the spot.

There are, of course, songs like "The Exorcist", that should counts as bangers in everyone's book. I like the way these folks move from sound to sound and coherence to incoherence without a blink. Pairing digeridoo with Malmsteenian guitar (on "Legion") is pretty great, even if it lasts for only 15 seconds or so.

I suppose I wish everything came together a bit more, but I think Kill the Giants works best when everything is a mixture, not a solution. If you're forgetting your chemistry, a mixture is when the different components simply sit together and do not blend. The TV-ready songs here are cool, but the goofy asides make this worth the listen.

Jon Worley