Aleks And The Ramps
Pisces Vs. Aquarius
11 Track, LP (2007, Cavalier)
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Found written inside the women’s toilet at the Rob Roy: “Aleks and the Ramp’s music is just so physical and tactile, you can nearly feel the moisture in the vagina.” Hard to argue with that really, considering the excitement governing a Ramps’ show. If I wasn’t a boy I’d probably feel it there too. Pisces vs. Aquarius is an ultra-fine approximation of the quixotic quintet doing it up on CD, minus the live moves and mishaps sure, but a highly-charged event nevertheless — wild, witty and insane.
They’re led by a mordant-humoured baritone/cineaste, whose lyrics lean towards the unexplainable, while the hooks hilariously emerge from the darnedest sources: cat food commercials, stray harmonies and noise bleeds. ‘Aminals’, one of two zany, infectious epics that bookend the album, is sung by the singer in the clapped-out falsetto of a sozzled spinster, boozed and confused, buttering toast inside her hotel with a credit card. The Spanish version of Roxette’s ‘It Must Have Been Love’ (‘No Se Si Es Amor’) is evidence the Ramps can transform disposable pop into something lasting and sublime. Add sugar-high harmonies, schizophrenic noise zaps and a beautiful banjo to this recipe and it’s a Todd Solondz meets Ingmar Bergman musical for the new school. Feel it.
by Shane Moritz
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