Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 09 Apr, 2009.

Doomy drone supergroup Khanate have split up now, making Clean Hands Go Foul their tender goodbye. Well, maybe not tender exactly. I reckon the first side of this beautifully presented LP is completely inspired, up there with the best of that incestuous Southern Lord-y scene. Some of the sounds Stephen O'Malley's wringing from his guitar in these improv torture chamber soundtracks are totally ace.. You can sometimes accuse him of coasting through on reputation alone but not in this case - blinding squalls and bowel-ruining rumbles blow forth from thy speakers with satisying regularity. The tortured vocals are always going to be a talking point, at times Alan Dubin sounds like he's throwing up so hard he'll be inside out by the end of the record; as I've just said to Phil, vocals like this work on several levels and one of them is that they're pretty fucking funny. So the first side is great, the second side is a tossed-off twenty minute noodle that just sounds like someone left the tape running while they were tidying up the studio. I've got a fair bit of patience for these things but it's completely fucking rubbish, no tension is built, no real atmosphere created and nothing of worth communicated. Still, one out of two isn't that bad..

Lmited to 1200 worldwide, pressed on four colours of vinyl, housed in a tip-on jacket.

This is KHANATE's final album, the so-called sister to 2006's "Capture & Release". The music was recorded early 2005, and the production and vocals completed in various points between 06-08. The direction is unexpected, direct results from over 6 years of coiled bitter tension and sadness into a longing liberation of sorts {capable from within this architecture of soundform},

Features members of SunnO))), Burning Witch, OLD, Phantomsmasher, Blind Idiot God.. . just to mention a few.
CD with bonus DVD will be released in May 2009

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