At times hushed and eerie, at others angry and full-on, ‘Medicine & Madness’ finds Dirty Purple Turtle run the gamut of industrial-edged electro sound sensations.
Opener ‘Count the Clock’ sets the tone and gives a slow-burning momentum. Motorik drums and a long synth-led fade-in pitches against a dark atmosphere before Sean Frank Classen’s vocals come in. With a hint of Suicide about it, I’m also reminded of ‘Red Flags and Long Nights’, the opening track on the first album by She wants Revenge. We’re certainly in similar territory when it comes to dark, brooding electro with a new wave inflection. ‘Hiritoto Shikitsch’ shifts toward a heavier technoindustrial sound, driving beats bring a hard edge to the EBM grind before exploding in a cascade of bleepy fireworks.
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‘Gods Left Eye’ begins as a dark and downbeat spoken word piece, before breaking into a mid-pace electro rock groove, Zoe Binetti’s distorted monotone vocals half-buried in a wash of heavy droning synth grind.
As the album progresses, so more bleak sonic landscapes emerge from the analogue fog and dense digital distortion. The title track encapsulates the spirit of the album as a whole as it twists and squirms, writhes and undulates. Grinding, edgy, sleek and seedy, it packs a fair punch.
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