Artist: TOOTHKICKER
Title: High Grade Low Noise EP
Keywords: experimental hardcore punk dark distortion electronic no wave noise post-punk power electronics reverb vocals Montreal
Upon first listen things immediately flubber around as if the band had opened up a pack of living worms by accident and are now suffering as these little lengthy creeps quickly started to crawl around biting anyone around them with their weirdly mutated teeth. You can hear some of the recording artists in the room hopelessly screaming for help, probably in pain as they are being bitten while trying to record some kind of weird music while being locked in the recording booth.
It’s quite the spectacle if you had to believe your ears. Let’s pray that they managed to kill the evil worms before the musicians had all been munched away down to the bone. In any case it’s good to know that the band seemingly seemed to have been able to record at least their first track of this release to a point that it sounds like it had made the well wished finish line. What’s next? Let’s hope no more hungry creeps munching on the music makers…
Apparently they survived enough to bring some kind of illustrious darkness to the recording session, something that feels as if they had drugged the members of that ‘the cure’ band, took them to a sad place in hell in which they tortured them out of their ideas and now had themselves be risen up again to provide themselves a new world stage that would be received well among devil lovers and slightly depressive worshippers of the great goat lord. It has that bass, the smokey low voice of mystery; what more could you wish for? An added steam machine?
A work named ‘Katabasis’ continues this sound and it feels irresistible, as if a demon god is exposing its emotional caring sound while still fuming its hotness from its previously under the ground living space. With warm singing and deeply lush crunchy dark synth tones it is simply a real charmer, even if the band of fallen angels might pick up a burning torch to burn its listeners up, you’ll probably find it mesmerisingly pretty enough to just stand there and burn pleasantly to the ground. Happy ashes we will be!
More bass and beat + some spacious extras that will give us the feeling of being glued to a bombing rocket that had been flown away for a final destination is provided in ‘cocoon’. Some words by the low voiced voice provider will calm us slightly down at the end, also no sign of a gigantic explosion helps our survival rate!
Last but not least there is the track named December 13th, which adds a little melody to the crunchy bleakness of it all, it doesn’t however turn the vibe into an happy moment, but does probably sound like the happiest that these music providers will get. They ring the dooms bells of their own peculiar joy and all in all end up by simply fading out the light, letting us stand there cluelessly in the dark still a tiny bit confused of what had happened musically. Band got attacked by killer worms, listened to the cure – went to hell, came back and are now conquering our hearts with devilish songs and sounds of darkness? Yep, that might be a rightful short synopsis that true professionals might poop out on their days off! Enjoy the darkness people, after all you never know when you will be depending on it!
https://toothkicker.bandcamp.com/album/high-grade-low-noise-ep
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