Olivier Dumont - Living in Holes and Disused Shafts

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5...according to our Brett on Wed 03 Jun, 2009.

I love the cover on Olivier Dumont's 'Living in Holes and Disused Shafts'. It was the main reason I picked it up actually, we're a shallow bunch here. Utech have done the business with the sexy black on black printing for the disc as well.. It's a lovely little package! Well there's no buildup here, stick it on and you're immediately socked in the kisser by some of the most satisfyingly brutal noise I've heard in a long time. I think Prurient's having a fight with Merzbow and, as they say in Paul W.S. Anderson's classic Aliens Vs. Predator, 'whoever wins, we lose'. The second track brings the insanely processed guitar to the fore for ear shredding treble thrills while the third blares away like you're at an early Earth show, strapped to a speaker after Dylan Carlson's left his guitar leant up against his amp for maximum wavering feedback DEATH. This blackened slab of digital evil's woken us all up. Excellent!

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Olivier Dumont is ancillary to the noise he invokes. A conduit for what the sound requires. Enshrined in a mass of cables, amplifiers and lo-fi tape equipment Dumont is lead to places of insane genius. Living in Holes and Disused Shafts was cut from hours of demo material and the finished recordings bear the scars of the avulsion. Gritty and confrontational.

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