Luxury Mollusc / Itching – Split – Cassette/Download – 2020.
https://itching.bandcamp.com/album/split-with-luxury-mollusc
https://luxuriousmollusc.bandcamp.com/album/split-with-itching
I confess to being a new listener
to Dublin’s Luxury Mollusc, (active since 2006) only hearing bits on splits
with other artists. Deep feedback terrorises my headset until clangs punctuate
the drones, this is Intersecting Erection. Infected feedback begins to pierce
the deep drones as it distorts seeming like bright sparks of light coming off a
grinder. I did not expect it to be this assaultive, this is an interesting Harsh
Noise display. There is a rich communication going on between the sounds, with
a few elements at a time make more with less. The work eventually delves in
creeped out, sophisticated atmospherics.
Deep bass heavy pulsations
form Interstitial Bodice, sharper, explosive noises seem to go off over this,
as if at war creating an unbearable tension within the work. This gets more
taught as it progresses. As the sharp
noises die off for a time, the tension remains in the deep drones, it feels as
if the artist is showing off by maintain the works intensity whilst stripping its’
elements down to the core. As the sounds rebuild, the sound is punishing as the
sharper noise works like an electrically charged whip. I feel I as if I am
floating in space while somebody takes an angle grinder to my head, this is
relentless punishing noise.
Raging Harsh Noise cuts to
drone and back again as Internment Glands begins to take shapes. This seems to out
do the two previous tracks in terms of the ferocity of its attack, it keeps
pulling back only to explode again in time. As the sound begins to fill out,
water like sounds begin to cleanse it as holy chanting can be heard within the
mass of noise. This truly is something else.
Itching was Nacht un Nebel,
instead of Cello, Cat purrs are the sound source for Itching. This is also
truly something else as Golden Hour begins, what sound like nice cat purrs
intensify and go into Cat Stellar Overdrive and build into insane passages of
sound that seem to explode into Harshness. This is warps sound to new further regions
than Nacht did and I conceptually translate it as an amplified Cat Worship, an
empowerment of the cat. This reaches a warped psychedelic harshness that I was
not expecting.
Intense purring starts Buried
off, this soon warps, distorts, and again goes into overdrive. What I thought
would be a calmer project than Nacht und Nebel is using something else to create
a harsher sound, the levels of warped are so screwy there’s something crazed about
the work, which I like. Lovely purring again introduces Sliced until it goes
off on further experimental tangents with the sound pushing at its’ limits
furthering the range as much as it physically can.
Triplicate starts as the
sweetest purr, less treated than the others, but accelerates to hyperdrive in no
time. This also goes very Harsh; the purr becomes assaultive and choppy as if
being hit by a helicopter blade repeatedly for fun. By saying this, I am not
saying that is all the track is because as the intensity subsides it moves
elsewhere to pleasant atmospheres - a kind of clicking trip. Visible
concentrates on deepening the purr source before the distortion of it takes it
elsewhere to become as severe as the Luxury Mollusc tracks.
I will say I love Nacht und
Nebel, but this work is a serious step up. The Luxury Mollusc tracks are
excellent too, this served as an excellent, proper introduction to both project’s
work. This cassette is one of the best releases that I have heard this year. We
are in a new golden age of noise in the UK, no shit!
Euphoric Bullshit Vibe 2020.
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