Ideal Father - Wire Mother
The third time is the charm, the third release (and Kalteldur review) by the primal Swedish Death-Industrial act Ideal Father. A limited 50 cassette copies have been released on the Italian cult label Death In Venice. About 44 minutes in total length, in other words... a classic full-length!
The album title has something to do with Harry Harlow. An American psychologist was experimenting with young monkeys who were missing their mothers. Harry Harlow then constructed mother-like ape figures out of wire and wood holding food, and the traumatized young monkeys would cling to the constructed wire and wood figure believing it was their real mother. There is also some rumor that the album title has something to do with CIA, brainwashing. Anyways, cool disturbing cover artwork with a symbolic tattooed guy with a kind of...hood you wear when you are going to get the death penalty sort of.
The first track is called Twilight Language. The distant sound of some sort of a power tool, rubber shoes in the gymnastic rooms, ritualistic gongs, and bone-narrowing icy vacuum-cleaner drones. Eerie and just... weird. Like when entering a room where... you probably shouldn't be in.
The second track Bodies That Appear To Be In Mirrors. Is that a homage to the world of serial killer Dennis Nielsen? He would often see dead corpses in the mirror. Classic death-industrial sound, a sound which lies somewhere between dark-ambient and power-electronics. Or just a slowed-down funeral-doom version of power electronics. Heavy distorted drone-bass sound, echoed layered sound elements adding lots of space, torturous sounds from a human-throat... all wrapped up in a kind of religious-mass sort of mood. Perfect death-industrial/ambient moods here.
The third track is called Wire Mother. Contains samples/recordings with our Harry Harlow and his abes. Strangely disturbing. In the sense, that the controversial experiments he committed... it was (maybe) something that benefited us in the understanding of how people would evolve without a mother. Lots of flesh-scraping moods here, and great horrific soundtrack elements as well.
The fourth track Psychic Driving. Starts like an ambient-driven track, but suddenly bursts into acid-drenched harsh-noise-driven drunk driving! Something pulsates, something scratching, something burning up... lots of dynamics here! Epic and wholesome death-industrial with lots of madness inside! Damn... I need to take my breath here!
The fifth track Alters and Triggers. Kind of a David Lynch sort of... murkiness to it. The way the darkness hides and just waits, to strike at us when we are being most vulnerable? Not an in-your-face sort of a track, but more of a ... there is something secret and hidden kind of mood.
Lots of epic dark moments of morbid grandeur and sordid angelic moods. The latest with Ideal Father is the kind that makes... people confess their crimes... in a good way! Everything is pretty dark and grim! But! There is also a human side to this devil! The brutal noise and industrial elements have been perfectly fashioned with ambient and drone music, everything is something between these two styles. Sometimes it's mixed, and sometimes we jump from ambient and noise, giving the album an extra element of pleasant chaos.
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