Terretron - Wither
Release Date.: 04.09.2007
Street Date..: XX.XX.2006
Label........: The Pandemic
Genre........: Industrial
Playtime.....: 49:55 min
Grabber......: Audiograbber
Encoder......: Lame 3.97
Quality......: V2 --vbr-new
Rippers Notes:
Really, where the fuck did this come from? Beamed in
apparently from the mid-nineties to the now, and
still so fresh and current it stings. A one-man
project from the North-Eastern US, seemingly it is
also a one-man mision to bring all that was best
about US industrial from a decade past to a whole new
audience. Which makes it all the more odd that all
the credits seem to point to someone who is well
integrated into the noise scene over there - but with
an album of this quality, there is hardly much to
quibble over.
Maybe, just maybe, looking backwards to go forwards
is now the way again - as after all, this is hardly
the first US industrial act of late to make a
conscious decision to do this (just check out the
storming power of Cyanotic's album Transhuman from
last year for more evidence). Perhaps these acts have
realised the anaemic bleeps and whines of recent EBM
is the twitching of a scene that has grown stagnant,
and it is time to use a different approach.
So how does this one work? It was described to me as
"prime nineties Wax Trax", and they really weren't
fucking kidding. At its (many) peaks, it is almost
the perfect synthesis of all that was great about
industrial music from then, with the likes of Sister
Machine Gun, Front 242 and even earlier Ministry, the
latter particularly in the naked agression shown in
parts.
What highlights? Opening (title) track Wither is
quite simply fucking brilliant, with a lumbering
beast of a beat, and all kinds of sequencing that
burrow into your brain making the track really quite
catchy, while How? has you wondering exactly that, as
a beat that seems out of step twists round a
spiralling, twitching squall of electronics and
hissed vocals gels together better than it has any
right to do. Ruin reduces the pace and ups the
vitriol - cut-up samples of G.W. Bush help to
reinforce the idea of where he is coming from...
Things get wierder later on, with the odd,
futurepop-esque beats jarring strangely with the rest
of Hunger, while Psychorps feels like ohGr has let
himself in the back door for a quick scrap over who
is manning the mixing desk.
What exactly one does to follow this up is beyond me,
as it sounds like nothing else that is contemporary.
The other problem is that there are only 300 numbered
copies, and I am not sure if any are left. Which is a
damned shame, as this really needs to be heard by a
wider audience...
Review:
http://www.amodelofcontrol.com/reviews/?pg=qtterretro
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Terretron: http://www.terretron.com
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Tracklist:
01 - Wither [04:44]
02 - Her [04:25]
03 - How? [04:40]
04 - Ruin [07:25]
05 - Petrichor [06:17]
06 - Hunger [04:36]
07 - Psychorps [05:52]
08 - Oceans [06:18]
09 - Peurile [05:38]
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