Quttinirpaaq: Let’s Hang Out LP (Rural Isolation Project, 2013)

November 9, 2013 at 11:33 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Quttinirpaaq: Let’s Hang Out LP

Hyper-distorted noise-rock from Austin. Very sludgy and blown-out. Some traces of vocals, but they’re swirly and flanged and completely unintelligible. Shorter tracks are more noise interludes. “Chinese Hercules” is basically a tumbling riff and drums repeating endlessly with crazy distortion. “Stork” is more uptempo, almost dancey, and has really out-of-control distorted vocals and ends suddenly. “Man Without A Body” is a slow thumpy mega-corroded-distorted splintered techno-ish track, very much like Henry & Hazel Slaughter. “A Golden Sheriff” is backwards mellotrons and beats. “Vamos A Matar Santana” is more of a midtempo sludgy groove, with wailing feedback flying everywhere. “Cop Boner” is more trashy sludgy and noisy with another midtempo beat and vocals that just bleed into everything else. “Let Merv Drive” is another long repetitive groover, but seems a little bit less blown-out than the rest. There’s even some tambourine along with the beat, and a little bit more structure to the arrangement (and another sudden ending). “Old Whisky Shoes” sounds like it could be a cover of a Porter Ricks track, with a minimal thumping beat and some dubby echo, covered in a layer of amp buzz. “A Secret History Of Belgian Dog Owners” is 2 minutes of troubled mellotron covered in hair-raising feedback distortion (and yet another sudden ending). Seriously a scorching album! Available at Bandcamp.

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