Suncarcass - Naked Unwanted [Stasis - 2011]The wonderfully named Suncarcass are a HNW project from Illinois, USA who have been putting out releases in dribs ‘n’ drabs since mid 2009. "Naked Unwanted" is the projects second full length release, after a few splits on various labels, and this CDR releases offers up two hypnotic and rewarding slices of twenty minute plus walled matter. The CDR comes in a plastic sleeve that features mainly all black artwork save for the tracks/ release details on the back in white text. And on the front cover there's a small black and white picture of a female figure facing away from the camera and pressing her hands against a white wall. The sleeve gives the release a nicely sleek yet bleakly arty feel. First up we have a track entitled “Disjoint” which comes in at just over the twenty three minute mark. The tracks built around a entrancing and bleakly rewarding mixture of two noise tones- firstly we have a deeper, washed-out, churning and slightly aquatic ship deck shifting noise texture. Then secondly we have rolling, turning and slightly crisp juddering noise tone. Suncarcass feeds these two elements into an intense and unrelenting wall of noise, which nicely warps and locks around you in a slightly eerier, brutal yet wholly appealing manner. Track two is entitled “ Spine” and is the longer of the two tracks here at just under the twenty four minute mark. This track is more lo-fi, blown out and crisp in it’s feel than the first track. The ‘walls’ built around a tighter mixture of rapid yet slightly skipping ‘n’ missing static juddering and jittering tonalities which Suncarcass weaves out in a bleack, slight off pattern, yet starkly static based form. If you could imagine solid blocks of same sized TV static falling down on you in a steady yet rapid landslide that’s an idea of what to expect here. Also the tracks nicely and jarringly sequence straight in from first track which gives your system a nice jolt when the 'wall' switchers from one to another. “Naked Unwanted” is my first taster of this project and I must say that I’m highly impressed by both tracks on offer here. As each track is rewarding and original in it’s sound textures, and each track has a good and even mixture of brutality, atmosphere and moorish structure. So I very much look forward to hearing more from this project soon. Roger Batty
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