Fat Chance Is Better Than No Chance With CLINTON JACOB & DANNY SEIN From MR. PHYLZZZ

Interview by Kris Peters
As the name would suggest, Mr. Phlyzzz (pronounced Flyzzz) are not
your average entertainment machine.
More like an amalgamation of every musical genre that your Mother
warned you about - and some she should have - Mr. Phylzzz is best
described as a noise rock duo, but even that doesn't do their sound
justice.
Comprised of guitarist/vocalist Clinton Jacob and drummer Danny
Sein, Mr. Phylzzz is a musical entity unto themselves, shedding
every ounce of expectation and instead dousing the sonic flame with
a devastating wall of noise that simply has to be heard to be
understood.
And heard it shall be in the form of their recently released album
Fat Chance.
An album the band has proclaimed is "definitely a bit different
than the previous album, especially tonally" and their "most
straight forward and focussed record yet", what Fat Chance is, is a
breath of fresh air on a musical landscape that is becoming
increasingly mundane and predictable. It is an unrelenting,
dynamically charged assortment of tunes that challenges all music
conventions and dares to experiment on a scale few bands these days
even contemplate, let alone commit to recording.
With Fat Chance landing on the HEAVY desk last week amid more than
a couple of cries of WTF, when the opportunity to become better
acquainted with the men behind the sonic trail of destruction came
up we jumped at the chance.
"It's a lot heavier than what has gone in the past," Jacob offered.
"It's a lot more of a straight forward record. We put that together
at Electrical Audio in Chicago, Illinois, which is right down the
road from our practice space. "We've been playing these songs live
for a year coming off the last release Cancer Culture Club. That's
enough time for me. I work really quick and Dan works really quick.
We felt good about the songs - I'm not about fillers, I'm about
killers - so it's a short record for a reason. I don't put fillers
out. I just put what I believe in."
Going back to the bands statement about being different from
previous releases, we ask the boys in what way.
"On the last record Cancer Culture Club Clinton wrote all the
tracks himself and produced them in his apartment," Sein replied.
"That had a much more noisy, chaotic feel to it. He left things in,
like his cat would be meowing in the room and he would leave that
in the song. So it's got a different atmosphere to it. With Fat
Chance it's a lot more straightforward. When you listen to it, it's
kind of like how we play the songs live. Normally when we play
there aren't really any chances to breathe in a sense because it's
just Bam, Bam, Bam and in your face. It's short and sweet and it's
got a big, huge drum sound. It's a lot more like... hi-fi. But
we're using that beautiful studio space so there's fancy mikes,
fancy equipment and all that."
In the full interview, the boys talk more about the sound on Fat
Chance, the more polished way it was recorded and what effect that
had on the finished product, their creative process, the title and
where it comes from, their perception of how many songs constitutes
an album and how many for an LP, a history of the band, their sound
and how it works, heading out on the road with The Melvins and
Boris and more.