Pussy & Sorrow - Opening the Theta Door [Self Release - 2013]I’m always a little suspicions of bands/ projects who dream up their own genre titles, as it often indicates huge egos & small talent. Cleveland based Pussy & Sorrow create what they’ve called therapeutic noise, and “Opening the Theta Door” is their debut release that’s available in pro printed CDR form, and direct from their band camp site. This debut release offers up three twelve minute tracks, and to me a better label for what we have here is common garden drone music/dark ambience with some noise undercurrents. Opening up the disc is “De Veritas Dom Deus” which is basically built around a massed of chanted monk like samples that are underfed by distant & fixed rushing noise background. These two elements are fed out in a fairly bland & unchanging manner, and really I felt the track lacked any atmospheric, compositional skills, or flair- making this twelve minute track feel four times it’s length. Next we have “Dark Energy” which I guess you’d called brooding alien themed industrial ambient. The tracks built around circling & sinister sounding space craft like drone textures. It rather brought to mind a more fixed take on the kind of thing Schloss Tegal did on the excellent Oranur III, the tracks ok I guess but nothing really special or original. And once again it feels longer than it is. Lastly we have “DARE Mani Padme Hum”, which is built around amassed & looped crowd cheer ‘n’ clap, which has a sinister & fixed drone under it. Again the track seems to lack any atmosphere, or presence. And once again the track feels way, way longer than it’s running length. On the whole “Opening the Theta Door” really feels very amateurish & unfocused, with none of the tracks really entrancing or pulling you in. I guess “De Veritas Dom Deu” shows the most promise of the three tracks, but even then it's rather copying what Schloss Tegal did in the past a lot better. Really this not worth you time, unless you have a thing for loop crowd noise or voices mixed with bland unimaginative drone matter. Roger Batty
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