It was hoped by Disaster Amnesiac that the entire sequence of late 2025 No Sides Records releases could be heard and "reviewed" during that year, but a profound sense of laziness overcame me during Christmas time, and I just could not be bothered. That being said, here we are in 2026 and a nice series of rain storms has cleared the air here in Tucson so that enthusiasm is back and Dishumanus, the four track CD from Protohuman is playing in mi casita. Really fascinating, the way that Protohuman blends purely Noise tones with what sound like set lyrical forms for each song. Opening track Dust keeps making this listener think of the album's aesthetics as being a kind of futuristic Folk Music, and this vibe hangs out for the entirety of Dishumanus. For the most part its sounds are spikey, on the higher end of spectrum and pushed by primitive drum machine programming. Protohuman sings or speaks words in a soprano voice range that deal with mysterious, presumably subjective topics affecting the life of writer. Being on an equal level within the mix as greasy electronic whirls and beats, they aren't exactly easy to discern but that's fine: this mix renders them as equals parts within the sonic spectrum of each song. Protohuman is mining a vein of post-apocalyptic sounding Noise/Pop fusion that Disaster Amnesiac can see being a standard type of musical output later in this century. Their Bandcamp page mentions Tucson in the tags section. Are they playing a set for the Desert Drone series any time soon?
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