Niku daruma – FUCKING NOTHING
– Reel to Reel/Download/cassette – My Skin Don't Mean Much / Laura's Girls - 2019.
1.
FUCKING.
2.
NOTHING.
My appreciation of the trio
that is niku daruma has been documented on here through reviews of the Goreshit
split and She Gets What She Wants releases. There is live footage a plenty on
YouTube and recordings on their Bandcamp to immerse yourselves in the full ND
experience. The imagery of their work, tells plenty, live performances are
intense, and the releases are rare, so keep on it.
This may be a 2-track release,
but the stakes are high, and ND are to me, a leading light in modern Harsh
Noise/PE, so fingers crossed.
FUCKING starts of as if a microphone
or a sound lead is being tapped repeatedly, it goes right through you, this
ensures that the dialogue continually punctuated as feedback and distortion
seem to want their say too, it hasn’t kicked off and its nasty already – why
did I review this on headphones, I have a headache already. I can’t follow the
dialogue, then it explodes into a massive wall of distortion that is cut into
by sharp, piercing noise and here we are Niku Daruma’s fuck noise is in full
swing. Nasty displays of frequency abuse ensure, I am getting what I wanted.
The shifts in frequency are sudden and harsh, the sharpest frequency seems to
act as a lead as if taking over from the dialogue. There are several prominent
shifts in the sound to ensure the delivery doesn’t get samey. The tracks end is
epic. FUCKING is horrible, nasty, sound abuse and pure spontaneous delivery.
NOTHING is an immediate wall,
a dense barrage of distortion. This is dense, immense and intense; more so as
it is then frequently interrupted by harsh feedback that resonates as much as
the wall does. I am aware of the project’s RITA appreciation, but in my view,
this is impressive HNW fucked with to maximum effect. The breakdowns and drops
in sound to sharper noise mass that develop are impressive and ensure a continual
and gradual shift. Again, the abuse of sharper frequencies forms an impressive
lead noise, the sound is pure violence.
Niku Daruma continually steps
up their game, it is amazing to see the project develop and grow into something else.
Nevis Kretini 2019
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