“It sounds like slugs mating…” was the comment from a colleague who heard this. Considering the label, well that was me sold….

With if I’m honest, not the greatest depiction of Cthulhu rising as a cover, Kadaver / Listing is …er… two blokes named Kadaver (electronics) and Listing (vocals) respectively. This is a three section album of electronic noise which doesn’t even really fit into the idea of ‘ambient’ either.

Opening section ‘Aquatic Demonic’ is the slug sex one. It sounds like giant slugs having very painful sex as the water boils around them. Howls, groans and other distorted vocals echo over the bubbling electronics and drone for over fifteen minutes. If you came looking for some Cryo Chamber Lovecraftian Collaboration then you got out on the wrong floor. This is more in the realms of Masonna or Merzbow or C.C.C.C. Noise. It’s got its points, the vocals sound suitably harrowing and the accompanying distorted noise evokes a fine bit of chaos rising before tapering off but it’s kind of just OK.

Second section ‘Razor Love Orchestra’ is the shortest at just over seven minutes and is basically white noise and interference with, buried way, way below something that might sound vaguely mechanical groaning away. It isn’t my thing as it really evokes nothing in me at all and is the drawback of this style of ‘music’. If it does nothing for you the tendency is always to mutter ‘I can do that just by not tuning in the radio properly…’ It clears my mind though which is also a fair achievement.

Final section ‘Rusty Empty Heart’ is over twenty minutes. First nine minutes is really simply static, nothing more. Around the ten-minute mark some vague but heavily buried noises begin to echo somewhere back there. Over the rest of the section these gradually rise and become one with the static, the sound of rusty machinery falling apart until the dance band comes in.

Yeah. This is marginal stuff. Not only is it not for many, but even if you have a liking for this now and then like I do I’m not entirely convinced. First track did indeed engage my imagination but subsequent sections did nothing but engage the white noise in my brain. Now that in itself is an achievement to be proud of due to the deafening and constant internal dialogue I have most days, but really, I’m not convinced that this outing is that intriguing at all. Sorry.

(3.5/10 Gizmo)

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