Band:	Squash Bowels
Album:	Love Songs
Style:	Goregrind
Release date:	2005
A review by:	Herzebeth

01. Dead Field
02. Grind Standart
03. Ungovernable
04. Syringe With Wit
05. Searching For The Kill
06. Stinker Spoiling For A Fight
07. More Our Colours
08. To Flash The Hash...
09. Ruthless Rabble
10. Swinish Snout - Liar
11. Naive...
12. Wound Fuck [Gut cover]
13. Fuck Instructor
14. Neuron
15. Sick Control

Squash Bowels is one of the most underground bands in the Grind scene, quite unusual because these polish guys are actually amazing and way better than many of the mainstream pricks trying to do strawberry flavored Goregrind or Grindcore (*coughs* Cattle Decapitation *coughs*). So anyway, Squash Bowels released "Love Songs" in 2005, and what a great release this is, let me explain why.

The music in this album is balanced and really versatile, in the Grind way of course, the fact is you won't hear half an hour of nothing but blast beats and chaotic noise, this band is intelligent enough to add some melodies here and there and a lot of catchy riffs for us to realize we're not hearing the usual "average" band, of course there's chaos and a lot of hostile music, but the songwriting and the structures of the songs are so refined that everything flows in the best way possible through your stereo.

Songs like Grind Standart (with a punk feeling) or better yet, [Searching For The Kill[/i] (the best song in this album) show experience in the execution and a more established sound; there are a lot of breakdowns in every song of this album, and of course a lot of blatant brutality to please every extreme metal fan, for example Naïve which is one of the most aggressive songs in "Love Songs", that eleventh track shows the right way of doing Goregrind, violent music, insane vocalizations, fast as hell drumming and grotesque riffing (the final bridge, which gives opening to the next track, is in a word inconceivable), so as you can appreciate, these guys are no amateurs at all.

I didn't found big flaws in Love Songs the musical structure in the entire album is incredible, the overall production and mixing is clean and the layout is amazing as well, in fact I missed the lyrics in the booklet, that was a small turn-off actually, I would have loved to read the lyrical content of each song laying in this CD, and another thing I disliked was the constant "loosened" vocal effect added in a lot of songs, when the music is as tight as in this CD you'll expect tight vocals as well right?, besides those little things the album per-se is really amazing, I'm sure many extreme metal lovers will praise this album as much as I do now.

Best Moments: "Grind Standart", "Searching For The Kill", "Naïve?"; and the Gut Cover is freaking amazing.