P.O.V./V.O.E.R - Earth Thoughts Be Silent Now
Two projects, one from Japan (P.O.V.) and one from Sweden (V.O.E.R.) have decided to go together and create a split-release together. This split-release has been released as a sleek-looking and limited digipack thing from Spanish Marbre Negre. Kind of makes it all interesting when all you get is a mysterious title for the album, and the photo of a desert with a clear and beautiful blue sky. I sense a kind of... post-apocalyptic scenario here. How beautiful and peaceful the world would/could be without us humans, that idea also explains the title aswell.
P.O.V. starts with textured and digital, chunky mind-bending noise. The first track called Death On Credit being a lovely roller-coaster ride through the high energetic noise-thing, which can only come from Japan. Something is constant while something being the opposite. Chaotic and static noise-treaty starts the split. The second track by P.O.V. called Roar and Gospel has an ambient sort of Tg´ ish intro/feel to it. Industrial elements and highly distorted vocals meet up with extra layers of mind-bending electronic-noise. Some of it sounds a bit like warped shortwave radio-frequencies. The kind of radio-noise which one might pick up in some desert after several nuclear bombs have felled. The third track called Nashikuzushi sort of meets up where the first track started, just way more aggressive in a free-jazzy sort of way.
Fourth track Curse 7 with V.O.E.R. moves into grinding heavy ambient-noise. Almost a monotonous melody here, with mysterious and ritualistic Anenzephalia´ish background-vocals here and there. Love the effects on the vocals, very evocative. Curse 9 being the fifth track follows it up, with even more melodic gloominess attached to it. It does sound somehow familiar in a way, and then again it doesn't. It´s the less is more mood working here, a simple and evocative and slightly melodic bass-line and echoed vocals lurking in the background. Last track And It Will Cleanse The World, has a more death-industrial sound to it. If anyone among you highly enjoyed Dogs of Yama (see former review) then check V.O.E.R. out.
2 very different projects on one full-length split-CD, Japanoise and death-industrial collide in a post-apocalyptic playground. Go and check it out!
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