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Love Katy - I Would Be Your Girl [Kafkex Rex - 2012]

“I Would Be Your Girl” finds UK based Love Katy offering up a c45 worth of Katy Perry influenced/ obsessed HNW. The tape was recorded around the period Ms Perry split with Mr Brand( check celeb news around the start of 2012, if you don’t know what I’m talking about), and offered here are two side long ‘walls’ that mix together the pop sweetness of Ms Perrys work with atmospheric static texturing to battering bass bound wall-making.

Normally this projects releases utilizes a picture of Katy at her more playful/sexy/quirky, but the artwork for this release is somewhat grim. It features a  black ‘n’ white picture of Ms Perry looking very up-set with run mascara & possibly blood stained hands.

The tape features a twenty two minute ‘wall’ aside of tape, and side ones track is entitled “In another Live”. This first side starts off with a sample from the beginning of Ms Perry October 2011 single “The One That Got Away”- the sample lasts around a minute or so, and I must say the ‘wall’ is very skilful phased into the popiness to create this great feeling approaching emotional oblivion, or maybe seared solitude; where ones thoughts seem very loud.  When the ‘wall’ fully risers, and Ms Perry disappears, it’s a bleak ‘n’ wintery trail of crackle bound static which seems to feast ‘n’ pitter patter around you like a mixture of TV static & slow cold autumn rain shower- this  ‘wall’ stays fairly fixed for the first half or so of the track. Then at around the 7.40 mark a more pressing & raging bass raped searing ‘n’ caught billow tone raises, and things start to turn nasty as Love Katy forces your head deep into this great raging yet fixed maelstrom of sound. As this new ‘wall’ goes on it seems to get slightly stretched, pulled & judder at it’s edges, which creates this feeling of sad turmoil or weary unstoppable pain.  By the 14th minute a slower splashing ‘n’ roasting jitter is added to the tracks second ‘wall’, and this creates the feeling of something or someone struggling against an unstoppable & unmoving force. In it’s last few minutes the track seems to speed up into a chopping & searing maelstrom of sound, and the noise tones become less divined- before the track fades out

Over onto side two, and this tracks entitled “I Would Be Your Girl”. And once again this starts with a minute or so sample from “The One That Got Away”. The ‘wall’ risers here in a more rapid & seared manner than the first sides more subtle introduction. This ‘wall’ here is a raging billow, which has a slightly thinner caught-in-spokes type tonality running through it. The ‘wall’ feels quite urgent & active in its feel, yet there’s a sad feeling of trying to make the best of a bad situation running through it's core. As we move into the 4th minute the tones seem to slowing & thinning down slightly, but just when you think it might thin out even more around the 8th minute a constant pitch of grey static enters the sonic picture & this creates this slowly circling & descending vibe that sounds like a whirlpool full of static on half speed.  By the 14th minute the speed of the ‘wall’ seems to have picked up once again, yet no new tones are added to the ‘wall’ at this point, and the tracks still retains quite a seared yet soothing vibe. By just before the 18th minute the ‘wall’ drifts into more of a static white-out with a whizzing underbelly, for some reason this part of the track brings to my mind the white rushing high  of speed or some similar drug. This whizzing feeling last until the end of the track when it finally fades out. I think I prefer this ‘wall’ out of the two, as LK skilfully slows then speeds up the ‘wall’ in a most effective manner.

So to sum-up this tape offers up  two fairly shifting & varied ‘walls’ from this UK based project- both ‘walls’ here are effective in both their structural shifts & both mange to keep ones attention through-out.....so another rewarding release from this project.

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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