SIX RAY SUN
BAD BATZ MARAU
Release Date: 28th May, 2001Cat No: DISCO0105
Format: CDS
THE SUN HAVE GOT THEIR BATZ ON AND THEY'RE COMING OUT TO PLAY
Straddling the divide between Hong Kong and the Home Counties, Six Ray Sun came together through a shared love of Suicide and Spiritualized. Four young men, two from the Far East, two from the South East spending twelve months constructing strange machinery in the radioactive sewers where Primal Scream's 'XTMNTR' is the closest thing to a national anthem, before emerging like mutant cyborg pop rats, armed with a clutch of violent cartoon-obsessed synthetic rock songs.
Well anyway, two friends from Hong Kong, Justins Chau and Sweeting, met Andrew Gannon and Leigh Cohen at Bath University, which is a bit like a radioactive futuristic sewer, but with more prohibitive property prices, before relocating to Oxford and forging their expansive form of sleek machine-driven music, Andrew's cocksure vocal style adding a human element to proceedings.
'Bad Batz Maru', named after the naughtiest penguin in Japan, is the debut outing for the band already hailed by Steve Lamacq as one of the best unsigned acts in the country on his 'Sessions Unsigned' slot. In fact it's so naughty it even mentions drugs in the chorus. Well, Valium. Which is kind of a drug but you get it from a sinister bloke in a white coat down the chemist's rather than a sinister bloke in a puffa jacket down the local park.
Yeah! Drugs! Rock and Roll! Six Ray Sun! Penguins! Hong Fucking Kong!