Mutation

Wednesday 1st Nov 2017

location_city Underworld, Camden

Mutation

"Mutation began as the deformed brainchild of Ginger Wildheart, one of British rock's official living legends and the man behind The Wildhearts, Hey! Hello! and all manner of wildly tuneful and uplifting rock'n'roll shenanigans. This band is different, however. This band is the manifestation of all the horrible stuff that goes on in Ginger's head. As a result, the first two Mutation albums were laborious in their creation but mind-blowing to all those who heard the: 2013's "The Frankenstein Effect" was like a Wildhearts album recorded by PCP-guzzling baboons, while "Error 500" was a relentless barrage of squawking, screeching, glitched-to-fuck wrongness. Both featured an ignominious cast of characters that Ginger assembled to facilitate his sonic meltdown, with everyone from Napalm Death and Japanoise icon Merzbow to The Fall's Mark E. Smith chipping in some wonky nuggets of aural sickness. But even the most extreme moments on the first two Mutation records sound like David Essex's Hold Me Close compared to the foul, seething, mentally shattered insanity of "Mutation III: Dark Black". A collaboration between Ginger and Scott Lee Andrews of Welsh bass-punk wretches Exit International, this time the madness is very, very real."