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JOULUPUKKI is a brand new project from Finland with only one release counting. On his Tumblr there is more to discover, like experimental video’s combined with noise. But I mostly liked his release that I will be reviewing today.The album has four tracks and starts with “Krakh Bol'shoy” which could be described as sick noise. Harsh layers of shattering noise team up with ranting, primitive vocals. And as the track progresses, the structure changes into more rhythmic noise, but still very chaotic and aggressive. Especially the nihilistic vocals are worth mentioning here. The second track, “F60”, has high ranged, static noise and shrieking, distorted feedback and effected vocals, joined by moaning, low bee sounds, pressing hard against the speakers. ‘Vomiting noise’ comes to mind listing to this track. “Linnut, sylilaitteet“, the third track, exists out of a loop of sickening vocals drenched in lo-fi fuzz, crushing noise and other strange effects also join this mental party. At moments this track is very sick and disturbed, like the child-sounds that come in after a while. The last track, “Medved der'mo” (the longest of the album), has very nice layers of harsh noise, occasional sharp feedback and more frantic vocals (much less than in the previous tracks though). Sometimes it sounds a bit like a data processor that went wrong. Very solid and basic noise I must say.
This is a release that returns to the roots of noise. A No-fi nightmare of bleak nihilism. Deranged and sickening to the core. Definitely one of the best and underrated releases this year.
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