Archive for October, 2022
You sweet fool. You came to my Special Website hoping to hear some soothing whale sounds and instead I’ve handed you a moist glad bag packed tight with paprika and human hair. It’s crass, it’s visceral, it’s futurist, it’s Super Death. He’s a lad from Meanjin country who dropped this whole record called Noise Breeder that I simply can’t recommend highly enough. You’ll hear vestiges of nu-metal, noise, industrial and what I dream could be longbow inspiration from one of my favourite acts to synthesize the electronic with the organic side of metal, Genghis Tron. In reality, it probably owes just as much to 100 Gecs as it does any golden age heavy hitters but that’s part of the magic and the eclecticism of inspiration hey.
I’ve only lived with even a knowledge that Super Death existed at all for around 46 hours now but it’s already feeling like a record that might see its way into my best of list. This one belows’s the first track off the LP and the best showcase of his production chops and his more futurist instincts.
The whole album’s extremely worth your time. I’m personally excited at the prospect of these excoriating vocals delivered over synthetic beats in this way. It’s not the first time it’s been done but I’ve not heard much of the like coming out of Australia, particularly done with this level of craft and agression.
yum yum.
My teenagehood is built on a mixture of excruciatingly aggressive noisecore and pastoral vocal harmonies and I’ll level with you, you’re not about to hear any noisecore. The pastoral harmonies of those early years, the likes of Mountain Man or even Sydney’s lil ol’ Sleepyhands, those are twisted in here amongst kitchenware percussion, anarchic basslines and doubletime everything. Meet Naarm sextet Empress. Is it a name they’ll have to change soon because there are almost certainly 113 Norwegian black metal acts under that moniker? You bet your ass it is. You and me, we don’t care though, we’re hear for the sounds not the branding and the sounds are good gravy.
They’ve had a trio of releases this year but we’re talking about Grandma (You Lie) first and foremost. That’s the one described above and that’s the one you need to start with if you’re going to tap in with this act. The references land in places like Hiatus Kaiyote and tUnE-yArDs so you know the musicality’s gonna be on point, if nothing else.
Gleeful me, I got to do deliver the First Play of their brand new single on triple j Unearthed radio tonight and my good fortune is now yours – enjoy. It’s a change of pace but it comes equipped with this subtle undertow, a sherberty bass sound tentpoled by searing synths that swells into a proper wall of sounds.
Artists you need to know rn
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| 2. Voidhood | |
259 | 3. jamesjamesjames | |
186 | 4. Zan | |
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| 5. Sesame Girl | |
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