You won’t find any tunes on Staer’s second album, which lands hot on the heels of their debut released just last year. They’ve not spent the intervening months refining their sound, honing their riffology or composing meticulously-crafted songs. No, What ‘Daughters’ contains is a mass of improvised bass / drum / guitar din, crashing drums colliding against snarling bass sounds and shuddering squalls of feedback. It’s violent and brutal and a complete cacophony as each instrument brawls blindly for supremacy.
A shrieking sax enters the fray on the tracks ‘Daughters I’ and ‘Daughters II’ (the latter of which sounds like a planet exploding atop a monotonous bass-line reminiscent of early Godflesh), adding to the mania. It’s clearly designed to inflict maximum pain, and certainly succeeds: the seven tracks bleed together to form 40 minutes of continuous, skull-splitting din. I love it, but suspect I’m in a very small minority.
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