Freak Kitchen

Confusion To The Enemy

Thunderstruck Productions ✪✪✪✪✪

Guitarist Mattias IA Eklundh is one of rock’s most colourful virtuosos, not least because he’s got a hugely imaginative vocabulary that’s pretty much just guitar and amp derived. All the harmonic dives, the sheets of chromatic shred, the keyboard-like waves of arpeggios, the wah-wah Beck-ish crys; just Mattias’s guitar into an overdriven amp. Clever indeed! Freak Kitchen is his trio performing punk rock vibe songs that are really fun and tongue-incheek - topics such as the world is run by morons (Morons) and wanting to hold someone’s hand, not a phone (Alone With My Phone) are wry looks at society; think Blink 182 meets Green Day with dashes of Zappa, Vai and Dimebag. The 11 tracks are broad in scope and would make great motorway songs while the more shred-hungry listeners will marvel at the guitar gymnastics and often poundingly tight riffs. One can almost imagine the manic smile as Mattias effortlessly performed first takes for all this!