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Bleak Existence - Uncertainty And Insecurity [Victimology Records - 2012]

“Uncertainty And Insecurity” presents the listener with two just over half-an-hour slices of agitated 'n' taut textured noise/ HNW from this Canadian based project.

The release comes in the form of a CDR that features a pro printed label that shows a ghostly blurred figure in a grim looking abandoned room. The CDR comes in a plastic slip sleeve that features a semi glossy warp around black & white cover, which on its front cover takes in a hand up against a condensation soaked window, and its back cover what looks like a very shadowy picture of a body lying on the floor.

Moving onto the two tracks, and firstly we have “Uncertainty” which comes in at the 31.18. The track is built around one main tone, and few sub tones- the main tone is a violently juddering lower-to-mid-end texture that keeps violently flipping ‘n’ flapping into it’s self. The sub-tones take in more grainy & thinner jittering & stretching tonalities.  The ‘wall’ is very nervy yet bleak in it’s feel with Bleak Existence creating a edgy yet fairly fixed feeling through-out the track.

Next we have “Insecurity” which comes in at the 31.14 mark. This track is built around a more stumbling ‘n’ dragging crusty tipped judder, which is surrounded by a few slower jittering ‘n’ crisp static sub-tones.  Again this track is edgy & nervy, but it has a more hopeless & grimly numbing feel to it. This track is slightly less fixed in it’s structure as you get dense lumps ‘n’ bumps of more agitated noise, and also slight more pared back textured noise dwells- yet the ‘wall’ doesn’t move too far from it’s original pattern/ structure.

All told this release gives the listener two effective & rewarding slices of textured noise/ walled noise that are both agitated & taut, yet bleak & grim too.

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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