"And if nothing else, this leads us to hope that more bands will learn the lesson that Cellular Chaos has to teach them in its own intractable way, and eventually understand that punk and rock are more states of being than any particular set of tired conventions."

cellular chaos

https://nowave.pair.com/cellularchaos/

www.skingraftrecords.com/bandhtmlpages/cellular_chaos.html

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/16156-cellular-chaos-adviser/

https://altdaily.com/bring-your-energy-bring-your-psychodrama-cellular-chaos-to-play-charlies/

"...For all this energized abrasion and its stop-start hysterics, not to mention its fervor for stripping guitar-based music down to raw constituents, it’s surprising that so much of the album is subliminally catchy and memorable in its own improbable way, and it’s this oblique catchiness more than anything else that supports the idea that the band hasn’t at all set itself in diametrical opposition to rock music as such, but rather has set out to amplify its most vital and insurgent qualities. A good portion of this follows from the vocals of Admiral Grey, a classically trained singer whose ragamuffin hoots and chants often act as the more tightly patterned counterpoint to her band’s persistently unhinged invective...moreover, there are still moments without her input where the band itself coalesces on some slanted or diffuse hook....on “Cutter,” a recoiling, elasticated cycle of distorted notes purposefully breaks out of the stuttering confusion to endow the track with a sneering, concussive face, in the process condensing and refracting the perfidious veneer of rock & roll into something more in keeping with the debased madness of our times.

So somehow, perhaps by the sheer force of will alone, Cellular Chaos are able to transform these kinds of outbursts into figures that are more distinctive and enduring than they have any right to be. And, ultimately, even in those not infrequent moments when they are engaging in harmonization and actually playing what could loosely be called a “tune,” it’s this idiosyncratic fervor that makes the album what it is, and at bottom makes it such a pure and unpretentious rock record. And if nothing else, this leads us to hope that more bands will learn the lesson that Cellular Chaos has to teach them in its own intractable way, and eventually understand that punk and rock are more states of being than any particular set of tired conventions."

- Simon Chandler, Tiny Mix Tapes