Mademoiselle Bistouri - Simplify Your Life
The big news is that our favorite Italian noise-sicko has got a bulletproof solution for you... and your entire family! And the best thing about it is that he actually has 4 solutions to actually...Simplify Your Life! Which is (as the graphics above tells us) 1: Through love 2: Hanging around 3: Enjoying guns and 4: Getting into necrophilia or maybe...just getting a skull tattooed on your forearm?...
You could also just drop the 4 solutions, and just enjoy the sound which these 4 solutions represent on the latest Mademoiselle Bistouti release from Death Bed Tapes. Came out last year on tape, and sadly already sold out (I would keep an eye on it on Discogs if I was you!). Regarding the cover art, I really like the sleazy kind of the 70s-look. Would love to see more of that design in the world of noise and power-electronics!. Anyways.
The first track called Way#1 starts with the sounds coming from a couple (male and female) clearly enjoying themselves! Could be from some old vintage 70s porn-flick, all-of-a-sudden it stops and simply explodes into a sex-crazed noise-carnage. Nerve-grinding and mind-splintering. Interesting multi-layered things hide in the mist, there is the sound of a cracked vinyl player, interesting and psychedelic twists between the stereo speakers, and the distorted sound of grinding metal on metal. That is what you basically call a kick-ass sort of way to start an album!.
The Second track Way#2 starts with a thumping power-noise rhythm and then it quickly dissolves further into pulsating harsh noise. Interesting anguished sounds are looped in a hypnotizing way here. Great chubbed up bass-sounds and the lovely sound of screaming mics, what more can u ask for?! The slightly psychedelic undercurrents being still present in the sound. Traces of someone screaming here?
Way#3 (B-side) is the shortest track on the album, which also represents according to the cover-artwork... the handgun. High-pitched electronics-screaming, the kind of pitch which makes dogs run away! And then all the electronic-currents run through your entire body, making you twitch and squirm for more. A more in your face track with a higher tempo-switch between the sounds and moods.
Last and final Way#4 (also the longest track) represents the skull. The very last anger and anguish left on the album can be located on this one track (over 14 minutes long!). Very brutal but also very subtle in a way. A time for torture and relaxation at the same time? A screaming vortex of multi-layered distortion sucks you in... and keeps you there! Also the track on the album with the most space in it... lots of mood and lots of action as well!
Simplify Your Life will keep you awake from the beginning and to the end. It´s simply an action-packed harsh-noise-and-power-electronics monster that simply does not quit! You look at the cover artwork and it will tell you... ´I am a badass´ And yes, this album is such a badass that it definitely would decorate your lovely shelve containing your Chuck Norris VHS-collection!
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