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Love Katy - Rainbow Haired Starlet [Toxic Industries/Irritant Series - 2011]

Most Harsh Noise wall projects take on darker, troubling & more inward looking themes as there subject focus; but Uk based Love Katy take a brightly, though possible perverse tinged theme of amercain female popster Katy Perry as it’s theme. “Rainbow Haired Starlet” is the projects third release, and to my mind it’s the most rewarding & consistent release the project has put out thus far.

The CDR consist of two untitled tracks- the first track comes in at just over the two minute mark and is really an amusing  intro to the album as it features a radio or TV interview with Ms Perry as she just about to get her breast cast for a cancer charity. Track two is the ‘walled noise’ meat of the release & comes in at the 37.45 mark, and after a noise abused and bent sample of one of Ms Perrys tunes we drop into the brutal meat sonic. The tracks ‘wall’ is a active & dare I say quite bright though brutal mixture of juddering, jitter & caustic rolling noise textures, and at times there’s almost a noised up percussive feel to the track- this could possible come from some crude mangling of Ms Perrys music, through it’s never fully defined into anything really recognizable. On the whole the ‘wall’ is very thick & encasing in it’s textural feel, yet over the tracks near on forty minute runtime there’s a nice feeling of shifting with-in the textural layers and from time to time it homes in on three or four second pitch sustains- though these never fully break the ‘walls’ sonic skin. All told it’s an enjoyable, active and quite distinctive slice of wall-making, that I find myself enjoying through out, unlike some of the projects early efforts which felt a little hit ‘n’ miss & unfocused.


“Rainbow Haired Starlet” is a bright, active yet still brutal take on the whole HNW genre- so if you fancy something a little different from the dour, macabre and inward looking themes & sounds of most HNW this certainly is worthy of your time.

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Roger Batty
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