fire & waterhexspeak debut full length album, CDDA, now available
CDDA is one of the cutest slabs of abrasive noise to mangle speakers in some time, if only because it feels so precious. In six tracks that wander from three and a half minutes to nearly 16, CDDA meanders through just over an hour's worth of vintage noise drones and volume spikes: varying levels of feedback rustling beneath squelchy tones that climb into pinching squeals and flatten into just another background buzz; amorphous loops that grossly suggest rhythmic devices in the way that Lucian Freud's thick brushstrokes crudely capture corpulent flesh surrendering to gravity; vaguely acoustic-sounding sources--a reed instrument? A didgeridoo? A cello?--smeared into the mix like a shark's-eye black mosquito slapped into a blood-red streak; growling electronic tones that rise and fall like a breathing mechanical beast; high-pitched needle tones dotting an angry drone like crushed fallen crab apples along a well-trod path; flitting ghosts of taped voices absorbed into the greater rumbling whole as if cardamom into a curry. Throughout, these almost identically named tracks--"CDDA 0x" 01 through 06--practically beg comparisons to harsh noise treatments from Merzbow or Throbbing Gristle, Aube or Maurizio Bianchi, and the extremities for which such artists aimed.
-- Bret McCabe, City Paper
Track list:
1. CDDA 0x01 13:12
2. CDDA 0x02 15:49
3. CDDA 0x03 03:34
4. CDDA 0x04 11:17
5. CDDA 0x05 08:27
6. CDDA 0x06 12:28
Price:
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$10 by USPS
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P.S.
We also still have a few super-limited edition Deadhouse EP cassettes left, produced by IdiotUnderground.
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