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An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter - The Killer Wore Gloves [Somnolent Shelter Records - 2008]

“The Killer Wore Gloves” is a 2008 release from this Giallo influenced HNW  project, which featured the projects original line-up  in the form of Richard Ramirez (of Black Leather Jesus ,Werewolf Jerusalem, Vice Wears Black Hose, ect) & Isabella K (formally of Anal Drill, ERK64, High Heel Maniac, Limacon, Manplug) who left the HNW scene altogether in 2009.

I guess you could see this as a single or a 3inch release on a full sized CDR as the three tracks on here have a full running time of just under twenty minutes. Up first is the title track and it's the longest single track here at nearly the eleven and a half minute mark. The track starts out with an rapid down-pouring ‘wall’ of rain meets swaming fly like static tones, which brutally feast and hammer down  around you for the first three minutes or so. Then it turns into  more of a tight and tense jitter bound static texture bombardment.  By the four and half minute mark it’s jumped back to more heavy rain type static dwells, than we switch once more  into the tighter &  jitter bound static ‘wall’ for the last two or so minutes of the track.  It’s an rewarding enough slice of ‘wall’ making that has some nice textured switchers along the way, through some of them feel a bit jarring( in a bad way) and jump-cut like.

Up Next we have “Cold Knife”  which comes in at just under the five minute mark. It’s ‘wall’ starts out as a mixture of churning  & revolving cement mixer static and stuck hacking tones, later on it morphs into jitter bound static rain, and roaring storm drain jitters.  The track really builds a knife edge tension, and it moves from the different grains/ grade of static in a very intense and rewarding way.

And lastly we have the baby of the bunch “No Suspects” which is basically just short of three minutes of sinister and bass cracked brooding jitter, ominous static dwell, and thunder bound judder. Just like the other tracks it switchers and morphs in an effective way, but this has a much more sleazed and barren feel about it. It’s a pity really the couldn’t have been longer.

All told “The Killer Wore Gloves” is an effective, shifting & at times quite atmopshric shot of black glove killer obsessed wall-making- it’s just a pity it’s all over so quickly.

Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5

Roger Batty
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