beijing's future orients break out with guns blazing on 'eat or die', their full length debut for the venerable maybe mars record label.  nice write up of the album here.  i was having a little trouble with the fact that i like this music perhaps because it is something of a warped copy of western guitar music, the original iteration of which is not typically my thing.  for some strange reason, i seem to prefer this band's lyrics served up with the fact that they mispronounce english --seemingly intentionally, given the fact that the back up vocalist seems to be able to say the word 'child' just fine on one particular song -- the third track 'motto' -- while the lead vocalist seems to prefer to pronounce the word as 'chow'.  somehow that kind of playfulness makes the music better.  i struggled with this, until i thought back to how rock n roll really has a rich history of singers apropriating foreign accents and styles.  nowadays contemporary western rock bands seem to tout their influences with the clinical anaesthetic feel of a works sited section in an academic paper.  this band seems to be rougher around the edges and proud of it.  the result is rock n roll with greater sincerity than i have heard in quite a while.  

_duck sauce