‘Are You Laura Palmer? No I’m a Fu***** Psycho’ read the title of the email that dropped in my inbox the other day. It’s also the title of the opening track from the latest release from Calf, and it’s one of the album’s more palatable titles, which also include ‘The Artist Formerly Known As Hipstercunt’ (Pt. I & 2) and ‘Squeezing Blue Hope from my Christian Numb Cock’
According to the press blurb, the band’s new album is ‘infinitely darker, more devious and visceral than their 2011 debut release ‘A Constant Loss Departs From The Sentiment Of The Abandoned’ and culls together a wide variety of sounds and textures’. It also claims that in encompassing elements of post-rock, noise, shoegaze and industrial, ‘Bastards Anatomy Use A Unicorn Go To Apathy’ displays ‘an admirable reluctance to be confined into a particular genre or any kind of easy categorization’. I’d have to agree.
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What it does do is present a squall of howling guitars over a sludgy bass trudge and some heavy drumming. Tumultuous noise bursts with ear-splitting, cranium-bruising intensity. Over the course of 10 minutes ‘Laura Palmer’ traverses a host of challenging terrains and paves the way for what can justly be described as an epic sonic journey.
A cracking album, and nothing remotely hipsterish about it.
Calf Online
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