and thus the backlog has been conquered yet again, tune in next week...
Infidel? / Castro! - Bioentropic Damage Fractal (2005)
>sound collage, noise, drone
An absolutely massive mixed bag, but with some very high highs. The shorter tracks are pretty worthless, just lame exercises in spastic, wacky, Zorn-esque grindcore. Just really forgettable at best and irritating as fuck at worst. The long, drone pieces, on the other hand, are quite nice. They're definitely too long, and they contribute massively in bloating this album more than I thought an album could be bloated, but they build up incredibly nice, they've got dynamics down, and they're uncharacteristically pretty. They fit poorly with the spastic metal, but taken alone they're really nice. Nothing extraordinary, and a /huge/ mixed bag, but worth a listen.
2.5
just based on yer favorites
mac: cleaners from venus, doc corbin dart, the dentists, polaris, the soft boys, teenage fanclub, shintaro sakamoto
dg: clipping, company flow, dalek, the beatnigs, man bites dog, techno animal
BBNG: batsmi, flying lotus, john mclaughlin/mahavishnu orchestra, love cry want, sun ra, hermann szobel, zappa
radiohead: nick cave, the durutti column, brian eno, king crimson, thee more shallows, pulp, tful282, the verve, ween
the 13th floor elevators, 35007, bardo pond, hal blaine's psychedelic percussion, circuit rider, flower travellin' band, mort garson, the grodeck whipperjenny, high rise, index, jacks, love live life, bruce palmer, LRD, michael yonkers, and yura yura teikoku
