Immaculate:Grostesque – Lifetime (Cassette, C20, Truculent Recordings 2006)



This project is from Jeff Plummer, who also plays or played in Shallow Waters. Both projects seem to be on a hold though, or defunct. And for this release you had to be very quick. Only twelve copy’s were made. He also runned Truculent Recordings (also seems to be on a hold), the label on which this release came out.

Side A (Untitled) begins with calm & sensitive drone electronics, sounding a bit like a campfire that slowly starts to ignite. They get more fiercely and start to erupt into a more aggressive sound, of heavy, high ranged, frantic noise and hiss. Scattering bursts and chunks of harsh noise follows, and than ends abruptly.

Side B (Untitled) starts with sharp feedback hiss. The sound is full and room filling. This is followed by more distorted machine-like electronics, which sound a bit like deluded and manic Morse-codes, drenched in a good, crunched layer of harsh noise. Some nice, subtle blasts of noise awaits the listener at the end of this track.

It seems to be that there are several parts or tracks within these two tracks, which make a very good and solid whole. The artwork represents the sound: cold and sterile. This is for those who like their noise to be old school and dusty.

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