FORTIETH DAY, THE / SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS / TERENCE HANNUM "split" (Land Of Decay) cassette
The final installment in the recent batch of tapes from Land Of
Decay, this one a three way collaboration between Terence Hanuum, he
being one half of aQ faves Locrian, and two other groups we had never
heard before, The Fortieth Day and Shee Retina Stimulants, and like the
rest of the tapes in this batch (Number None, Ithi, Andre Foisy,
Wraiths) this is another slab of grim, low end minimal blackness, a sort
of post industrial thrum, all looped layers and blurred rumble and
crunch, but LIKE those others, this is way more than just noise, the
sound here is lush and haunting, the loops add a subtle rhythmic
element, much of the time spent creeping and drifting and woozily
shimmering, but the proceedings pocked with bursts of static, blasts of
tangled psychedelic noise, the framework provided by sonar like beeps,
and softly stuttering clipped loops that become actual rhythms,
occasionally sounding like some murky sprawl of heroin house, while at
other times like some sort of abstract doom pulse, a heady plunderphonic
songsuite of blacknoise, post industrial drift, and blissed out
psychedelic minimalism, that manages to be surprisingly hypnotic.
