Crystal Castles – ST (2008)

This is a great bitcore album, it sounds just like the music that I longed for throughout my long dark twenties back in the twentieth century. But alas, the NintenGod didn’t deem it suitable to release this beautiful album until I was almost 38 years old.
Thanks to the great tv-series Skins, I got a minor musical orgasm when they played Alice Practice – the second track from this album, on the show.
The songs are cyber/urban and somewhat Japanese in their own way. The vocals are glitchy and cut up, often beyond comprehension and the minimal lyrics deal with darkness, drugs and nightmares.
It’s a great ride. Go give it a try.
Bonus information: One of the ambitions of the band, was to open for Melt-Banana.
And now this post turns dark. I hadn’t really read much about the band before, but I did some research yesterday… and I guess I could be the last person who likes music to discover that Ethan Kath – the producer of the band has been really badly controlling and abusing the singer Alice Glass, who only was 15 years old when they met. He was 26 (sic).
And this leaves me with a feeling of extreme ambivalence. The dilemma of whether I can enjoy the art of a abuser and his victim? The music is fantastic. So is this music of Burzum, Michael Jackson and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. And these days of streaming leaves a small amount of my money in the pockets of people whom I’d never give as much as the time of day due to them being fucking scum. Back in the olden days you bought the record/cd/tape and then your paying the artist was done. And yes I know that this also has several morally questionable aspects. I don’t know what to conclude from this. The fact is that this record is fantastic but made by a predator and his very much underage victim. I’m not going to put any link up for this, but instead link to Alice Glass’ latest release the single Remains.
Wadge – The End of Ethnology (cd 2016)

My relationship with Wadge goes back about 10-12 years, I was (and am) very much into drum-machine-driven grindcore, and as you might be aware, Wadge is exactly that.
At one point, I contacted Wadge via their MySpace, and was very excited to actually get an answer from Paul Wadge. We agreed to make a split between Wadge and my band Kusari Gama Kill, and Jay Randall of Agoraphobic Nosebleed fame agreed to release it on a new label he was planning, namely Grindcore Karaoke. The split was never made, but Paul and I kept in touch. He is a very nice man, and I still hope to shake hands with him one day.
Wadge has had a Tiki-theme going on for quite some time now, and it has been good fun, and great grind. But on this new album called The End of Ethnology, and is 100% Tiki-Free. As the liner notes go:
“This album is for those who value the ability to freely speak your mind over the modern worry of tiptoeing through the misguided muck of feelings. The anti-fascists have become the fascists. Modern day witch hunters trampling through life with stakes in their eyes. Redefining language and soothsaying thought. No one is immune from their delusional social arson, but only you can decide whether or not you burn. Stop, drop and roll, motherfuckers.
This album is for our comrades around the world. Oceans and miles separate us, but the affinity for this wretched filth keeps us close.”
Important words.
Musically this is Wadge in top-shape. The songs are lean and hungry snippets of grind. I love the production too, the best sounding Wadge record I know of.
I urge you to acquire this slap of plastic before it is sold out. Mortville has released it, and you can get it at the link below.
All there’s left to say, is: Take it sleazy, all the breast.
https://mortvillenoise.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-of-ethnology
Deche-Charge – Disgrace To The Corpse Of Seth

I got this evil slab of noisecore today. Very very entertaining and wild. Just the way I like it.
http://www.discogs.com/Deche-Charge-Disgrace-To-The-Corpse-Of-Seth-Lp/release/5537168
1001 Tracks!!!