The first release from the new experimental noise/rock label Mind Flare Media sure is a weird one. Comparative Anatomy are a duo of two bassists armed with samplers and drum machines who create an absurd mix of drum machine grind, bizarro industrial metal, and Boredoms/Bungle/Ween style weirdness. On Mammalia, the band uses nothing but sampled animal noises as the "vocals" with each song featuring a different animal in the role as "singer", so you get ten tracks of spastic, heavy cut-up noise rock fronted by squealing dolphins, barking dogs, hippos, cats, camels, seals, and other wildlife; yeah, this is as ridiculous as it sounds, but fans of fucked-up experimental weirdo rock and brain-damaged grindcore should dig this, it's schizophrenic logic twisting around martial drums and simple pummeling bass riffs, spastic grind laced with cheap Casio keyboard melodies and looped animal noises, all kinds of electronic noises and effects running throughout the tracks, one minute the band sounds like some kind of mutant Casio death metal outfit, the next it turns into sampled Middle Eastern female singing, Primus-esque bass funk riffs and industrial drum machine pummel, or becomes alien Tropicalia infused with random beeping, looped big band samples, and mangled doom metal. Definitely a bit of Naked City/Mr Bungle genre-hopping influence to this stuff, but Comparative Anatomy continually return to some form of cartoon metal crush, songs like "Peter Rabbit the Great's Carrot Phalanx", "Swarm of Camels", "Puppy Hatred", "Eruption of Cats" sounding sort of like Carl Stalling scoring a drum-machine grind band with cartoon critters behind the microphone...