To say that Tera Melos are up to something different might just be an understatement. In fact, I'm not exactly sure what they're up to and I'm not a hundred percent sure they even know on their album, Patagonian Rats. Patagonian Rats is the sound of four or five albums all being played at the same time at different speeds and somehow coalescing into something that occasionally approaches what's commonly known as a song. I suppose you could consider what Tera Melos play some form of physics induced math rock. That tag might actually make sense as listening to this record is a challenge for your brain to work out and might just require a doctorate.
With a Casio calculator in hand and having the ability to solve sine, cosine, and tangent equations listening to Patagonian Rats becomes doable. You see Tera Melos are such a chaotic trio of musicians and they've got so many ideas rumbling around their heads that they simply don't have time to record three or four separate albums, instead, they've compiled them all into twelve tracks of mind warping psychedelic freak outs that sounds like the Flaming Lips on even more acid. Patagonian Rats is an insane trip that will undoubtedly make some head spin and make others scratch their heads. The question throughout this record that must be asked is what the heck are they on about and why do they play out of time for a vast majority of this record? The answer is there is no explanation...you just have to accept string theory as music philosophy and shake your head.
If you can imagine riffs, beats, and lyrics spinning off in every direction imaginable through a variety of planarial spheres you can kind of imagine where these guys are coming from. Patagonian Rats is an intense record that truly makes no sense at all and challenges the very notion of what makes music, music. This is math rock with four PhD's in astrophysics. It's unlimited, untamed, and almost unlistenable and I mean that in a good way.
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