Loud Cities Magazine _Issue 3_03_2021

6 Loud Cities Magazine / #3 MAR 2021
REVIEW Mike D.
The Explicit Melancholy of
MECHANIMAL
in the New LP
“Thorivos“ (Noise)
Today we premiere the new fifth album
“Θορυβος” (Thorivos - NOISE) by the
Athens based ongoing experimental
music project of Mechanimal, via Inner
Ear Records. MCHNML is the brainchild
of electronic producer and newindustrialist
Giannis Papaioannou
(ION), who with an impressive move
sent the whole project to some
unimaginably high standards of the
urban culture. Following last year’s
electro-industrial storms of “Crux”
LP, where he manipulated Freddy
Faulkenberry’s vocals as a storm
unleashed, this year he found the best
narrator in the face of another iconic
figure of the Athenian underground,
Thekla Tselepi at the front.
Renowned radio producer, an artist,
and an activist, she gave her
volcanic cold blow on the
words she had in her hands;
the words that are written by
MCHNML member Angelica
Vrettou (creator of their
album covers and curator
of the videos of their live
performances) in the Greek
language and fortunately for
everyone all translated into
English. You see, the ink that
Angelica put on the paper
is urban bloody poetry in all
its sparkling glory; explicit,
rude, nasty, annoying, true,
feminine, sour-sweet, she
became something like an
analyst of the global psyche...
“Like a whore’s hole-ridden
dress/ Floating on the dull