Shapednoise: Until Human Voices Wake Us LP (Opal Tapes, 2013)
December 8, 2013 at 10:29 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Shapednoise: Until Human Voices Wake Us LP
I have to confess I haven’t been keeping up to date with Opal Tapes. I know all their releases are up on
Bandcamp, but who has time for that? So the only Opal Tapes release I’ve bought so far is this Shapednoise LP, and I don’t think I could’ve picked a better starting point. This record is just unbelievably massive. It just keeps grinding and crushing you. “Witness Of A Heart Attack Death” sounds less like dance music and more like an electronic rhythmic beating. Harsh and painful. “Between Hallucinations And High Poetry” dilates your pupils even further. The title track comes close to an industrial/EBM melody, but frays and circuit-bends it, until it’s completely splintered. “Information on the Individual Sensoriality” has an intense, bassy didgeridoo-like drone and ends in stuttering glitch and a fading sheet of static. “Survival Of The Dead” also has a didgeridoo-like drone, but more chopped noisy rhythm, which sounds more abstract at first but seems to straighten itself up a bit. Sort of. Vaguely. And it gets more intense and skipping at the end. “Black Cells” starts with a distorted drone loop which, again, also sounds vaguely like a didgeridoo, then gets another percussive loop added on top, and a layer of screeching noise piles on until it abruptly ends.
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