RH: New Bedford Squall (Inam Records, 2013)
October 9, 2013 at 11:22 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
RH: New Bedford Squall
From the same label as Olekranon, Vopat and Sujo comes the newest project by presumably the same artist. RH (the mysterious man’s initials) focuses on dark ambient and drone, doing away with the heavy drum machine beats and doom-metal riffs, but still going with dread, darkness and despair. Guitar seems to be used here to create dark, churning drones, but there’s also some dour funeral horns (or synthetic approximations of such) on opener “Dharisee” and some rustling, crackling noise in the background. “Embayed” actually does use some drum machine (mostly cymbals and a low thump) but drowns everything in rhythmic distortion. “Timoneer” is like a soundtrack to a grainy, decaying film sequence about a ghost town. OK, “Lazaret” does also have some slowly thudding beats and droney metal guitars, but they’re way in the background. Everything about this song just sounds so distant and fading. “Receiver of Wrecks”, the final song, is another dour funeral drone (albeit a funeral that occurs in a cloud of fog too thick to see through). Free download on
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