Scum – Life Sentence – CD – Aussaat – 2021 – Aussaat 14.
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For Life Sentence Japanese Harsh Noise unit Scum delivers 9
tracks of contrasting, choppy, chaotic cuts. Scum is the sole project of Sou
Inomoto who has been releasing under the Scum name since 2010. The artwork on
Life Sentence is by Françoise Duvivier who has been creating amazing,
nightmarish visions from France for decades, her artwork is worthy of
individual inspection.
Label Aussaat is no stranger to Harsh Noise, they have the
French perspective from Brutalists Entre Vifs and the American take L’Eclipse
Nue that actually started in Tokyo bringing and regurgitating the influence in
a new form. Aussaat seem to select good noise acts and do proper CD releases
with them as opposed to Cdrs or tapes.
The tracks on the album operate at a high speed, sounds
evolve by cutting each other up with collisions and overlaps. There are sharp
jolts of sound that punctuate passages of noise, cuts and drops break the
movement of the sound into other directions. I like the erratic interruptions
that seem to make way for eruptions that have no similarity to what has gone on
before. Hisses are broken by buzzing screeches, that are then chopped up so that
their flow is broken, feedback cuts through all of this. As the sound bottoms
out and new tracks start the process over again, with new variations and
methods demonstrated across the album.
The works often function on a partial capacity so there are
impressive, detailed sound interactions at the lower levels and this will then
gradually and sometimes suddenly rise to a fuller capacity. The slower build ups
allow for a lot of change in the sound to happen during this time. Life
Sentence’s strengths lie in the quieter areas haunted areas that resonate bleakness
and how they contrast the busy areas that give the feeling of being a passenger
during a high-speed drive along a motorway.
Army of One 2021.
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