One could spend hours waffling around endlessly and aimlessly trying to figure how to put a label on this New Jersey act. NO USE FOR HUMANS comes across at first like video game music, then the prog sets in and you are in for quite a bumpy ride. The drums bring to mind PRIMUS, RUINS, TERRY BOZZIO, and THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS' Weasel Walter. The band as a whole is slightly reminiscent of the Bozzio-era ZAPPA album “Sleep Dirt” that also has a female lead singer and lyrics about the earth’s imminent destruction. But while "Sleep Dirt" had more jazz in it, this is much more electronic and...well sci-fi. Had Bozzio been present for Zappa’s “Jazz From Hell” album, it may have ended up sounding like this.

Synths and samplers are all over this and drum machines are present, often alongside the real drums. The sound of Moog, Roland, Korg and even Casio synths are at the epicenter of this other-worldly disc. There is bass guitar on about a third of the 15 tracks here and guitar only makes it onto one song. The singer sounds a little like Bjork with a bit more sensuality if that’s possible. It is hard to pigeonhole this act for sure, yet their sound is very consistent almost to the point where every song starts to sound the same to the less discerning ear. Those of us who have had to endure naysayers rag on our death metal for this very reason know better. Same with the progheads and techno fans among us. There is really no mistaking NUFH for any other band. That, in my book, is almost always a good thing.

- Herring

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