Medicine and Duty - The Imperial Black Fracture

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5...according to our Brett on Tue 11 Aug, 2009.

Medicine and Duty, two things which are important if you want to be an army medic. And if I was playing some online fragfest as one of the aforementioned I'd quite like to be listening to this 7" on Foolproof Projects during the parts where I'm blowing people's cocks off with grenades. I don't really know why, I'm just waffling becuase the record's only just started so I can't really review it just yet.. I guess I could say that the band is made up of ex-members of Raised By Wolves, Puffinboy and Burning Idiot Noise? Alright, I feel like I've got a bit of a handle on it now.. It's like some amazing skronky post-punk electronic noisefest and despite the fact it's only Tuesday I bet it'll be about the best single we'll hear all week. Disparate atonal sawtooth melodies/howls work for and against each other, forming grooves from chaos while some highly satisfying drum nutter goes frenetically gonzo all over his sweat-soaked skinz. I can see this appealing to people into Teeth Mountain and the like. These three tracks of industrial tribalisms are a winning start to the week's reviews and the sleeve was designed by Dan White, San Francisco's most hated man - that's gotta be a selling point. 'The Imperial Black Fracture' is limited to 250 copies! WWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!

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As Raised by Wolves, the duo of drummer Andy Pyne (Puffinboy) and guitarist Matt Colegate (Burning Idiot Noise) released four CD's of improvised free-rock psyche-noise between 2004 and 2006. Now joined by Jack Cooper (Guillotines), they have formed Medicine and Duty.

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