brutum fulmen spork (cdr from neus-318)
the first time i listened to this album i actually didn't care for the second half too much, actually everything after the third track, which is generally harsher and more unrestrained than anything else i've heard by the brutum fulmen.. every track on this disc is based around sounds generated from "feedback and connection sounds from amp and digital delay" [lifted straight from the sleeve] occasionally augmented by metal friction and various other acoustic sounds. it's kind of hard to choose which track i like the best, because some of them are quite different from one another.. 'raputin' is a very carefully laid out thirty minute track that goes from atmospheric to harsh and back again, contrasted by the treated improvisation 'fleshy bulbs' which tears through six minutes like a rusty power saw, radically different but probably the best tracks on the disc in my opinion. not really a bad track on the album, although 'the girl from feedback overdrive' with it's somewhat unwilling-sounding spoken word bit does make me cringe a bit [although the rest of the track more than makes up for it, including the narrator screaming herself hoarse through the end of the track]. altogether an excellent album.