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[Album: Clones of Megan] Just tape. Reams of it. Three decades of taping and taping and taping people talking. An obsession with isolation. Every blackhumour tape is composed using only human voices, looped, with bare-bones post-processing. Noise contemporaries of the time (Whitehouse in particular) used voice collage to shock, jar, disturb, or punctuate their waves […]
[Album: Historical] In 1984, Bernhard Goetz pulled out a revolver and shot four teenagers on a train in New York City. In 1991, Illusion Of Safety took his recorded testimony and rewound back to that moment of violence through the medium of noise. Tape recordings (War veterans, torturers, newsreel reports, murderers, torture victims, murder victims, […]
[Album: eponymous] Trailer-park hitches smeared with baby oil and Colgate. Is that grass or broken bottles jagging up through the mud? A bathtub on fire in the wilderness, cracking beers, watching and giggling at the smell in a pair of borrowed panties. Crank Sturgeon is a fucking comedian. As a musician, the ramshackle shitpile of […]
[Album: eponymous] He always sounds like he’s laughing at you behind your back. It isn’t the shrillest or most chaotic piece of junk noise, or the most extreme, or the most depraved… but it is unnerving. Like having to clean up alone after a violent party and finding the little pieces of evidence that refuse […]
[Album: eponymous] Mary tends to push her own brand of clinical and muted racket which registers somewhere in between ambient and noise, wavering back and forth between the border. That’s why it’s refreshing to dip into the bucket of her many random tape releases and pull out something muddy like this which crackles with bile […]
[Album: Ottoman Black] The carnage of Ottoman Black unfolds like a story told without words. There’s a narrative at play here. Moments and hair-triggers cut in and out like Memeno: cut-and-paste bare recordings of clothes shuffling, meat being slapped, hands tightening around a throat. Domestic violence. Guttural, urban, grease-spattered, unclean – discarded wrappers, heaps of […]
I posted this in The Noise Starter Pack Channel when I was making the Caroliner post. Quarts of Blood is definitely the “starter album” of the two, but Rise is my favorite. Blood was released on Subterranean Records, but Rise saw them switch labels to Nuf Sed, and the production takes a huge jump. Quart’s […]
[Album: eponymous] I hate this duo’s name. Appropriately, they sound like they hate me. Me, specifically. The first video I saw of them they stripped naked in seconds. One of them leapt up and ran across the bar of the venue, kicking glasses over, both artists retching in unison. Power-drill feedback, then roaring disgust. This […]
[Album: Self-titled] Aja Ireland tears the top of her elaborate costume off, walks out into a bewildered audience, and all but literally assaults them with her microphone. She spits and screams and mutters and moans, backed by a thudding drum machine and hardware vomiting out tape-recorded loops and her own voice chopped and thrown back […]
Hello, Dead Iverson here! This is the Noise Discord review series, where a track or album in the genre of noise music and genres related to noise is posted daily along with a blurb about the track and artist (Label and links will be included when appropriate). A casual affair, intended to broaden my own […]