Friday, May 11, 2007

FENCES "s/t" 3" CDR


I know very very little about this entity, other than the music on the record. I don't know who this is, nor have i heard anything from them beyond this. So we're going in pretty unprepeared. I do know that this comes from a cool label called Small Doses who release, fittingly enough, "small (3") CDR's in very limited quantities (this one was limited to 66, i think.) So what sorta music is it? It's pretty awesome metallized uberdrone, ala the old masters Earth, or maybe the new masters Birchville Cat Motel. This is a massive tower of guitar sludge sculpted into some beautiful silvery shards of sweaty, throbbing feedback. The whole thing twists its shape and contorts in upon itself, only to reemerge anew amdist its own ashes in a globular form of tarry melodocism, like a star bursting apart in some frozen galaxy at negative one billion miles per hour (yep, it's some good slow sludge!). It's stunning stuff and i'm really looking forward to whatever this group (is it more than one person?) puts out next. My only complaint is that it's only 10 minutes long, but a full length might be pretty scary business, as for the 10 minutes that i spent listening to it, my brain pretty much leaked out of my head and oozed away to some primordial oblivion.

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