Mourn – It
Was Good While it Lasted – CD/Download – Bent Window Records – 2025
1 . The Boy From Bassenden.
2. Eyes In Rings.
3. Forged In the Crucible of Want.
4. (I Just) Died.
5. It's Alright With Me Francis.
6.
American Dad.
7.
Just One Cocktail.
8.
Aggravated and Indecent.
9.
R.Kelly Goes To WacArnolds (I believe I can fries).
10.
A Good Friend to Trust.
‘Disgusting and
Profane, this album highlights obsessive celebrity worship, true crime and those
who benefit.’ Bandcamp, label quote.
https://bentwindowrecords.bandcamp.com/album/it-was-good-while-it-lasted
https://idealfather.bandcamp.com
https://destruktionsanstalt.bandcamp.com/music
Mourn is collaborative
project between Kadaver, Destruktionsanstalt and Ideal Father. They previously released
the album Mastema in 2022.
The album's opener
The Boy From Bassendean slowly moves It Was Good While It Lasted into
life. This is a reference to disgraced artist/singer Rolf Harris who as prosecuted
as part of Operation Yewtree was sentenced to 5years and 9 months in 2014. It is
about his friendship with Jimmy Savile. Eyes in Rings is immediately more
aggressive, using pulsating electronics and distortion. Vague samples are woven
into the work. The title is further reference to Jimmy Savile, (the man who groomed
a nation). The title references possible necrophiliac tendencies in how he boasted
that some of his rings were made of dead people's glass eyes. The sound utilises
psychedelic nausea in the sound, I am sure I heard his voice in the closing samples.
Forged In the Crucible of Want plays on further Jimmy Saville references,
how he got away with his crimes for an entire lifetime is real life horror and one
that is still raw in the UK. The noise uses repetitive beats, drones and Saville
voice samples.
I (Just Died) falls into very murky sonics, it sounds
like a nightmare as it slowly drifts along. It feels like I am in an early industrial
time warp. It references necrophile and murderer David Fuller who was an unofficial
photographer for the band Cutting Crew, the title part references their hit song
(I Just) Died In Your Arms tonight. It's Alright With Me Francis sounds like
the Glitter Band with the beats that it uses, it takes me inside a seedy mind-set
(Gary Glitter) that I don’t want to be inside, it is like being locked in hell for
3:42 minutes. Not so Fun fact – My first girlfriend was a huge fan (pre-prosecution)
and we went to his autobiography signing in 1991. American Dad is further swampy,
ambient darkness, conversation samples play out, primitive noises back it. Kettle
Whistles go off, as Bill Cosby in samples boasts about a drug called Spanish Fly
a drug which makes females horny, this carries on into the bleak fog of Just
One Cocktail all reference to his habit of drugging and sexually assaulting
women. Samples of Cosby are overlaid into another dark soundtrack, slowed down siren
noises raise the alarm to the predator as he talks and brags. A brief passage of
humour plays out with samples from the Cosby Show on Aggravated and Indecent,
disco beats back samples of chatter. R Kelly is referenced in R Kelly Goes to
Whackarnolds ( believe I can Fries), slows the sound down as samples of Kelly’s
voice play moving into samples of he disastrous Prince Andrew TV interview play
out on the finale A Good Friend to Trust.
I like this album,
it does the good work Power Electronics and Death Industrial should do, although
it leans more into Death Industrial. It does this through presenting the real -life
monsters of society without any explanation. Just my talking about the themes amplifies
how grim that it is. Beyond that, the sounds are good Death Industrial murkiness,
with dialogue from each tracks subject working over some impressive ambient landscapes.
The three projects from the members of Mourn are impressive, but Mourn is equally
as good as each project. I'd argue I’d want more obvious vocals in some tracks
(not all), but I think this is still a good album and it is very worthy of being
in your collection.
Nothing and Nobody
2025.
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