Gluttoness - Bottom Heavy [Self Release - 2010]“Bottom Heavy” is the 3" debut release from this Fairfax USA project that boils up an effective and flesh heavy brew of HNW with some slight Power Electronics & plan Harsh Noise touches. As with most HNW act’s Gluttoness work has it's own focus and obsession running through his ‘walls’ & the release artwork, and that theme is very large and big women. The 3inch cd comes zip-loc bag with over-sized cardstock inserts, the front cover features a picture of a pair of very large female buttocks( hence the title), and the other insert features fat loving texts over laying a picture of a huge women sit on & engulfing a mans complete head. As this is only a 3” it last just 22 minutes, but there's a lot of rewarding ‘wall’ making and sonic promise with-in that short time. In all the disc offers up four tracks; with two very short tracks at just under the minute range & two longer tracks with one running at just under the six minute mark and the other just riding over the fifteen minute mark. All of the tracks here are fairly consistent and worthwhile in there own right with a few traces of Power Electronic vocals doted here and there, along with slight touches of harsh noise activity- yet neither of these elements appear enough to take the release out of the HNW bracket. The highlight here has to be the last & longest track which is entitled “She’s An Avalanche” and it takes in just over fifteen minutes worth of nicely interlocking noise textures. The track opens with relatively high-pitched swirl of noise tone, before it locks down into a ‘wall’ thats a mixture thick earthquake (or butt cheek) rumblings, jittering high pitched fan belt slipings, and just in the background this slightly swaying lower noise grain that shifts from a high pitched whine to wind brushed texturing. The tracks goes through a chain of about two or three patterns, and then returns back to the start again, & I must just it’s a very hypnotic and engrossing piece of ‘wall’ making. I particular like the lower noise grain that Gluttoness layers into the ‘wall’. So a very promising start from this HNW scene newcomer, who has both an original theme & obsession to his ‘walls’, and also knows how to make creative and quite distinctive noise too. Roger Batty
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