MUKIMUKIMANMANSU - S/T ( 무키무키만만수 ) - 2012

These girls are the shit. 

To be blatantly honest, I’m tired of those good girls singing prettily in front of their webcam in a neatly done bedroom with acoustic guitars, doing covers of the top40s or oldies and foolish love songs into “their own version” of coffeeshop background music. 

I’ve had enough of “that”. Those are poison. I didn't get my ears checked three times a year for “that”. 
These girls I’m about to rant about is the antidote of all that is “that”.

First off, let me break it down to you real quick why you should really, REALLY, get their album:

1. They’re sporting the most awesome group name ever.  I mean, who would’ve thought of MUKIMUKIMANMANSU as a name? What is MUKIMUKIMANMANSU? But admit it, it kinda grows on you by now, innit? Try saying it. MUKIMUKIMANMANSU. Really, SAY IT!
2. They’re crazy. They’re crazy and intentionally honest about it. See the live performances below. It’s fugly and refreshing.

Their self-titled in 2012 was a big blowout. They tore the cliché about girls and acoustic guitars. The album is fueled with angst and freedom. It’s like talking to a person with full expression and no image to be taken care of.  It’s fun and liberating.

MUKIMUKIMANMANSU is a well-produced insanity accentuated with temper tantrums thrown here and there. It is folk-ish in the most punk-ish context; it spat on the JUNO soundtrack with the filthiest gooey slime and redefines minimalistic sovereignty. Try going for a ride with your toddler controlling the wheel. Intense, unpredictable, and will surely involving a few curse word due to frustration, but at the same time you want to know how it will end. It is wrong on so many levels (and culture, I’m sure).

I never knew there was a fine line between idiocy and psychoticism, but MUKIMUKIMANMANSU sure dances comfortably there. They are the queens of the in-betweens.

 

Check their sounds in the video below with ONLY your best headphones. Your lousy notebook and desktop speakers wont do them any justice.

Note: I can only describe MUKIMUKIMANMANSU’s brilliance with antonyms of the mainstream’s definition of acknowledgement. Fuck adjectives.