*** Mindless Self Indulgence

FRANKENSTEIN GIRLS WILL SEEM STRANGELY SEXY

(Elektra)

As if their name weren't evocative enough, this Lower East Side quartet also dreamed up a genre tag that's an even better description of their shtick: "industrial jungle pussy punk." It's the jungle that impresses most on Frankenstein, even if the disc actually sounds more like Atari Teenage Riot's digital hardcore with all the BPMs and none of the artifice. As for "pussy," it refers not to the two women in the band but to lead singer and programmer Little Jimmy Urine, who also gets away with calling himself a punk since his lyrics are even more perverted than his musical vision. Mindless Self Indulgence present themselves as a joke: they look like Information Society, they sequenced the 30 songs on Frankenstein alphabetically, and their most memorable rhyme is "I hate Jimmy Page/Get those faggots off the stage." But the verses on "I Hate Jimmy Page" are as outlandishly homoerotic as the chorus is dumb, and Urine even manages to get introspective without sacrificing his wackiness on "Keepin' Up with the Kids." Score one for the idiots.

-- Sean Richardson

(Mindless Self Indulgence open for Korn next Thursday and Friday, March 30 and 31, at the Worcester Centrum. Call 423-NEXT.)