STRIATIONS – ‘DEMISE MECHANISM’
Striation’s most recent cassette release on the marvelous, mellifluent No Rent Records. This one is GNARLY, even by Striations’ sensory-affronting standards – total US style Harsh Noise domination, Skin Crime/Macronympha influenced to the extreme, with little of the Industrial or Power Electronics elements present elsewhere in Striations releases. Brutal walls of dense signal torrent and annihilated sampling swell and crash, overloaded synth tones bubbling up from the effluvia, mangled completely and enmeshed within various other maligned sound sources, dead signals bleeding out, impossible to locate audial North within the maelstrom. A sound and presence of live recording direct to tape. I would assume this cassette explores Finklea’s fascination and obsession with post-mortem pathology and body farming – this sounds like the breakdown of human tissues stretched across a millennia, extracting audial confusion and the terror of academic observation and impending corpse gas explosion from every passing moment of its run time. Blackly psychedelic, voluminously hypnotising, confusing and serrated, reeking of the diesel fumes of generators and human gore, drenched in bleaching florescent lighting. Fucking horrid.
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