Suture - Target
Yes yes yes ... I do know that we have had the same story been told over and over again. A cover clearly showing a militant lady from the "good" old days, you´ll probably have the same thoughts (and ideas) like me. It must be some kind of sexist/"sexist" macho power-electronics thing out to revolt and shock people out of their Doc Martens skinhead boots!. But hell no!... This is actually something different and really really interesting! I might as well add to those who can get easily confused/shocked by the cover-art, that we are actually dealing with one of the great heroes of WW2. Marina Raskova (as she was named) was the founder of several feminine regiments in the USSR as well. Even persuading Stalin to let women join the war. Just a good-to-know thing to have with you. Anyways!
The fourth release from Suture and the third cassette release. This one is available via Black Ring Rituals Records, limited to 25 copies.
How to describe this?. We´re kind of (once again last yesterday) back in with the days/sound of the old-school/proto days of power-electronics and experimental industrial. Think early SPK, Nocturnal Emissions, Esplendor Geometrico (early) and Maurizio Bianchi meets the heavy atmospheres of later Anenzephalia. Pretty fantastic stuff, more in the old-school industrial aesthetic than harsh-noise or power-electronics.
First track Failures starts with a hissing deep tone, with hints ritualistic and primitive thumping industrial rhythms. Distorted screeches join the subtle hypnotic and ceremoniously sound-brutality. Almost to the point of giving the listener a religious/spiritual experience. Occasional eerie snare-drums and handclaps heighten the experience. The kind moody electronic snare-drum/handclaps you would hear on Coil´s S is for Sleep.
Second track The World Outside offers menacing looped and warped sound-tones with those minimalistic, martial and ritualistic electronic thumping drums. The wall of moody noise (that goes in the background) almost sound like the spinning propellers from aero-fighters being ready to go (or being in the air!). Again having a very religious and hypnotic vortex of sound which sucks the listener straight in.
Third track (and last!). Strange samples of recorded radio and tv-voices with minimalist and cold machine rhythms, like something out of the album EG-1 by Esplendor Geometrico. Chunky and atmospheric distorted tones running endlessly in the background. Wonderful!.
It´s a top star quality stuff for old-school industrial fans, with some minor new-thinking elements attached to it. Pure underground industrial as it should be!. Be quick with the cassette, it´s a damn must!
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