Our Love Will Destroy The World - Even My Angels Thought Darkly

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 20 Aug, 2009.

We got a couple more beauts in this week on the Trensmat label. They've been quiet of late so it's good to hear they're still going! Here I got a 7" by Our Love will Destroy The World to mention which is Campbell Kneale of Birchville Cat Motel (who are now no more... ie they be well dead and buried...). So for your money you get a 2 track lathe cut 7" and a 2 track CD which features the tracks from the vinyl to party on down with. Oh and there's only 100 copies so these things never hang around too long cos of Mr & Mrs lathe cut collector. The lead track 'Even My Angels Thought Darkly' is a weird cut up electronic mess with layers of feedback, weird looped noises and some spoken word vocals low down in the mix. It reminds me a wee bit of Astral Social Club. The flipside consists of dense layered walls of feedback which are screechy and metallic sounding. Reasonably harsh and abrasive if you like it like that. It's well new Zealand sounding. Not got chance to play the other tracks on the CD but the lead track on the 7" is well worth checking out.

Campbell Kneale has set a torch to Birchville Cat Motel and we're proud to facilitate his new vinyl/cassette only project - Our Love will Destroy the World.

'And Even My Angels Thought Darkly' leads the way - a distorted throb lays the foundation for a menacing, metallic shimmer. There are multiple layers of skree and grind, the sounds flutter and flicker, skitter and stutter and moan and whir. Its a symphony of fragmented jangle, looped whirs, minimal rhythms and wheezing heaving ragas laced with delicate melodies, all woven into a dizzying expanse of tripped out sound.

On 'Yellow Nirvana' the sounds are thick and dense with various elements twisting and thrashing and transforming, sculpted into nuanced shapes, into mesmerizing textures and blown out noise drenched dronescapes. This is some fractured anti-funk - gorgeously blissed out and mesmerizing, but also caustic and abrasive, a million pounds of hiss and buzz and rumble and skree, a weirdly rhythmic slab of pink noise psychedelia, relentless and nearly overpowering.

The additional CD contains the two tracks on the 7".

VERY limited edition package of numbered clear vinyl lathe cut 7" in full colour wraparound picture sleeve and CD containing the two tracks on the 7".

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