Anunziata/Ghost In Salad: split tape (self-released, 2012)
August 4, 2013 at 10:53 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Anunziata/Ghost In Salad: split tape
Someone emailed me last year saying that they wanted to send me this tape for review, but I never received it. But it’s a
free Bandcamp download so I downloaded it and I’m reviewing it anyway. The Anunziata side is a 16 minute track called “Inspiration Stump”, but it seems to be like multiple tracks (or at least movements) combined into one. It starts with some mangled acoustic guitar (or other stringed instrument) and some lazy drumbeats, but then gets covered in ungodly distortion, and just gets the living hell pounded out of it. Mutated, backwards guitar is combined with softer acoustic guitar (maybe it’s a ukulele) and some wacked-out vocals come in, and then it just dissolves and turns into something else entirely. Then there’s some spare echo-covered drum machine beats and it just sounds physically ill and diseased. The beats get distorted and changed into big thick blobby shapes, there’s some muttering voices, and then harsh sickly guitars explode and scare the crap out of you. And then a lazy, sloppy indie-psych song pops up after all the diseased drum machines. A very disturbing bad trip, in the best way. Ghost In Salad has 4 shorter tracks on the tape, starting with thick harsh noise, but also throwing in confused, mumbled vocals. But then there’s a slow, crashing guitar-and-Casio bum-out, some extreme amplifier buzz with something faintly resembling a song trying to thrash its way out (and not succeeding), and then a Pumice-like minimal, broken guitar ballad.
The Answer Is In The Beat 
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