a r t i s t : Religious Knives
t i t l e : Remains
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : No Fun (NFP13)
g e n r e : Psychedelic
r l s. d a t e : Jan/2008
t r a c k s : 05
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 75,5 MB
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I love Religious Knives, and apart from having a simply
awesome name they make some of the most delicious noise I've
heard all year. Consisting of Double Leopards stalwarts Mike
Bernstein and Maya Miller along with Nate Nelson of percussive
noise troupe Mouthus you know you're in for something special,
but quite how special this is could never be predicted.
Released on Carlos Giffoni's immense No-Fun imprint the signs
were good for something of a 'classic' release, but the depth
of the album has just amazed me, and each time I play
'Remains' I'm sucked further into the murky depths and i'm
convinced that this could even knock Double Leopards classic
'Halve Maen' off the droney, noisy top spot. For starters,
'Remains' isn't your typical noise record, it's not even that
noisy actually, rather it uses distortion sparingly - synths
are saturated with noise and fuzz, vocals are gargled
hauntingly and that percussion, oh that percussion. The whole
record sounds as if it's been recorded to Dictaphone tape in
the 1970s and then brought out of retirement by a Dutch
scientist; it has an eerie quality which is usually impossible
to replicate and I have to tell you now, I'm totally in love.
Hell, I can even hear echoes of John Carpenter in amongst the
noise, those wonderful layers of bubbling synthesizer combined
with the almost tribal pots-n-pans percussion, it's a
soundtrack not to a film but to a drunken daydream, to the
best and worst ideas you ever had. There's doom, there's grit,
there's Krautrock, there's noise - but this album is way more
than the sum of its parts, or the combination of sprawling
genres, it's a dense, decomposing story of modern
experimentation and I'm absolutely hooked. Don't sleep on this
incredible record - if you're fans of any of the
aforementioned albums you just can't let this one slip by.
Essential!
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01-Bind Them [16:07]
02-Electricity And Air [13:57]
03-Blackbird [08:11]
04-Wax & Flesh [06:11]
05-The Train [13:24]
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