Opinions
»New collaboration between Carlos Giffoni and Dominik Fernow. Starts
off in an intense, minimal-beats Suicide style before Dominik erupts
with classic Beelzebub throat contortions and Giffoni lays out
blankets of loud chattering insect invasion over what has got to be
the ginchiest rhythmic base ever eviscerated by Prurient. Levels of
fuzz are beautifully eruptive and the second track gets even further
into the whole "we're all Frankies/we're all lying in hell" feel.« -
Volcanic Tongue.
»Man have I been waiting for this one… I make no efforts to conceal my
adoration of Dominick Fernow, a man I can love in the way only a man
can love another man, but Carlos Giffoni too, together!? Well I don’t
think my tiny musical mind can take any more excitement and I’m going
to have to douse myself in icy cold mineral water in a minute just to
catch my breath. Until then, I’ve just about got time to tell you all
about this latest emission from these two noise superstars, and my oh
my it's a little bit special. After Prurient’s stunning ‘Pleasure
Ground’ last year I knew there was no way he would turn back, and this
meeting of evil minds is proof he can still confound and amaze. You
might have spotted Giffoni recently getting his hands grubby on the
Death Unit album (with Chris Corsano and various other noisy
figureheads) but this is something else entirely – a collision of
grinding analogue electronics, distortion pedals and Fernow’s
screaming tonsils. Okay I know this isn’t going to a record play to
your mum, or probably your girlfriend either (unless she’s very
special indeed… or deaf) but damn if you like your experimental music
noisy with and extra portion of electronics (and I now I do) then I
can’t recommend this enough. Made up of two extended improv sessions
and recorded in the blackened land of Bushwick, NY (okay it’s not
exactly Norway is it…) this is yet more proof of why noise music is so
explosive at the moment – circuit bent electronic mayhem really
doesn’t get more frenetic and more impressive. It is big and it is
clever.« - Boomkat, UK.
»Heavy Rain Returns is a gruelling, electro buzzing, doom laded,
limb-ripping vocal extreme trip into vein barring and sweat ‘n’ Blood
spiting noise. That managers to sound extreme, dangerous and full of
grimy atmospherics.
From the murky/grim more disturbing the more-you-look at it cover
artwork, you know you’re not in for an easy, relaxed or gentle ride. From the outset this wires you in the mains,flicks the switch pumping
the power level up and up, till you eyes bulge. Then every and now you
get forced over and vocal abused by Prurient's vocal seeth, before
once more been battered back down to the floor by Giffoni's pulsing and
burning synth overload and electronic pump.
Spilt into two brutal un-named half’s of around 20 minutes each
beating. This barely ever lets up it’s intensity, when it does it’s to
tread grey sweat and vomit soured corridors of cruel and forced
doomy electro throb, or smell of cheap pleasure under the fingernails ambient last breaths. It's Heavy rain indeed, the kind that nail guns
you to the floor and then skins you alive, letting you up ever so often
to taste your tortures breath before one more forcing you down with
it’s weight.
A welcome collaboration between these top-spec noise hitters, which by
all account will be bearing new decaying and violent crop in the near
future.«
4/5. Roger Batty, Musique Machine, UK. |
