Dino Felipe - Xanaconversex

Dino Felipe’s XANACONVERSEX features a blue-skinned video-game-playing mutant on the cover—and, yeah, that’s pretty much what it sounds like, too. There’s blippery aplenty on “Slutt Petal (2 Crunch).” “Plunk Extend” is two minutes of rhythmic chaos, while “Strictly Genericize” is its melodic equivalent. “Pinky” starts making a little more sense, but there’s way too much noise-for-noise’s-sake and not enough consideration to the tracks. The album seems as if it were tossed-off to fulfill a contractual obligation. “Butterfri” shows Felipe a bit more focused, and it works much better than the short tracks. Even “Sexual Boats (Guitar Floats),” at three minutes, has some semblance of actual song structure. So perhaps it’s better to think of this as an EP with 4 real tracks—since it clocks in just over 25 minutes—and plenty of filler.