4 ...according to our Business Lady on 07 January 2010.
I'm digging the five colour screenprint that adorns the cover of the Cotton Museum's 'Pus Pustules' and the mentally monstrous etching on the B-side is also prinking my interest. Cotton Museum is a solo electronic noise project from visual artist Chris Pottinger, which probably explains the great visuals that accompany this album. Musically (well sonically...) we are dealing with mutated electronic improvisation that bubbles and pulses like a bog of lava or a persistent welt. This ain't no painful noise assault, far from it, here Pottinger explores the edges of the sci-fi world creating a sound that is neither abrasive or relaxed. Sorta sounds like weird sound effects used in an 80's b-movie horror movie like Critters or Piranha. Totally squelchy and strange, 'Pus Pulstules' fizzes and pops it's way through a 21 minute journey of madness. Totally processed!
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What their label says...
"PUS PUSTULES" is one of the most diseased COTTON MUSEUM recordings to date. Clocking in at 21 minutes on side A, adorned with with a detailed etching of sickly beasts on side B and a five color silk screened album cover designed by Chris Pottinger. Theremin, Synth, and other odd electronic instruments create a bubbling cesspool of rotting sounds that leak from your stereo speakers like a cancerous sludge. Take a trip through a strange world where you can hear these sickly beasts devouring corpses while insects sting their bodies, leaving them covered with infected welts. Cotton Museum is a solo electronic noise project from visual artist Chris Pottinger that has been performing for the past seven years. Limited edition of 400 hand numbered copies, black vinyl with thick chipboard album cover.