Poe for President
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Artist: Nurse With Wound
Album: Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella
Rating: 4/5
For fans of: Black Dice, AMM, Einsturzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle, etc.
To preserve my first impression of this album forever, I will write this review upon my first hearing.
I'm not even really sure what I expected this album to sound like when I hit the play button, something "industrial," though that genre is pretty loose. Basically, I expected musique concrete and noise funneled through an Industrial sense of driving rhythm.
The first track more or less provides an antithesis to this assumption. Enter Two Mock Projections, the first and shortest track on this disc (only six minutes!), and arguably the most accessible. I'm greeted with spacious, dark-ambientesque reverberations and drones, with loose, psychedelic guitar jamming pasted on top. For six minutes atmospheric elements and guitar jamming intertwine and play off each other, until ultimately clamoring for control of the track as what was once background has now become foreground and the dominant guitar is pushed aside.
The song enRAB and the immediately more abrasive The Six Buttons of Sex Appeal takes its place. Electronic screeching and other digital distortions and feedback form layers of this song, all supported by a very basic drumbeat. The chaos twists around on itself, new elements are introduced, hints of melody are briefly flashed at us as our heaRAB continue to spin around in circles. The drums slowly drift into the foreground of the track, giving it stronger rhythm and all of a sudden the guitar noodling from hell is replaced by wailing vocals, which predictably morph into raspy screams until ultimately subsiding. Based on this track it's easy to see where Black Dice draw their influences. In traditional music, you might expect two guitars to counterpoint, here we have two guitars violently struggling against one another with feedback and screeches, of course aided by a driving tribal beat. Though one might sound
Album: Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella
Rating: 4/5
For fans of: Black Dice, AMM, Einsturzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle, etc.
To preserve my first impression of this album forever, I will write this review upon my first hearing.
I'm not even really sure what I expected this album to sound like when I hit the play button, something "industrial," though that genre is pretty loose. Basically, I expected musique concrete and noise funneled through an Industrial sense of driving rhythm.
The first track more or less provides an antithesis to this assumption. Enter Two Mock Projections, the first and shortest track on this disc (only six minutes!), and arguably the most accessible. I'm greeted with spacious, dark-ambientesque reverberations and drones, with loose, psychedelic guitar jamming pasted on top. For six minutes atmospheric elements and guitar jamming intertwine and play off each other, until ultimately clamoring for control of the track as what was once background has now become foreground and the dominant guitar is pushed aside.
The song enRAB and the immediately more abrasive The Six Buttons of Sex Appeal takes its place. Electronic screeching and other digital distortions and feedback form layers of this song, all supported by a very basic drumbeat. The chaos twists around on itself, new elements are introduced, hints of melody are briefly flashed at us as our heaRAB continue to spin around in circles. The drums slowly drift into the foreground of the track, giving it stronger rhythm and all of a sudden the guitar noodling from hell is replaced by wailing vocals, which predictably morph into raspy screams until ultimately subsiding. Based on this track it's easy to see where Black Dice draw their influences. In traditional music, you might expect two guitars to counterpoint, here we have two guitars violently struggling against one another with feedback and screeches, of course aided by a driving tribal beat. Though one might sound