Through A Room is Noise legend Bill Nace's latest album of experimental Noise. An album that's perfect, if you need to have a splitting headache to get a day off work with, this album will provide your headache on every Listen. This album isn't for listeners who like tunes and melodies, only dig in if you like unlistenable noise albums. To my ears this is a contender for nastiest most unlistenable noise album I've heard this year, the other main contender being Discography 1997-2017 by Ebola Disco that I bought a copy of recently, this album shares a love of power electronics and nasty noise. Bill is known for having collaborated in the past with among others Chris Brokaw, Wally Shoup and Greg Kelley as well as opening for Kim Gordon. You may also know him from such groups as Ceylon Mange and Northampton Wools.
This opens with the gruff noises distorting of Intro whose pulsing sound is the gentle part, as the noises start to crush at your brain build in intensity. As I start to hope that it's nowhere near as long as 3 mins 46 seconds long.
Les Echos (Piece For Tuba) crackles into life like fireworks going off, with the Tuba adding an atonal wail, as sheets of noise rain down repeatedly, slowly quaking open your brain, as the headache begins, underneath the nasty noise, is an almost genteel undertow, that helps to make this a totally disorientating listen, it eventually ends with some static sonar interference noises.
Boil First is probably a good instruction for this album, as then it won't play, you won't wonder why you've put this other worldly cacophony on, your mind might not feel so deranged, as it will after listening to this chordal tonal assault on the senses.
E:E has whale sounds oscillating around the room, if you watch the glitchy as all hell video, the full disorienting effect of this may overwhelm you.
When Orange is tonal shifts and annoying noises. Crooked Teeth sounds like you've been slowly chiseling at the teeth with a blunt chisel and no pain killers, before the hand pumped drill gets to work grinding at those teeth, your now demented with pain crying for anesthetic, but you're in a Dentists who never uses or electricity in his work. This album is torture to listen too.
The Giant is ready to stomp your mind, but first he lulls you into thinking this track might be nice to listen too, as it builds is gets nastier and nastier, screaming in your ears and crushing you with the crackling noises erupting against the quite pleasant strings.
Ann has mouse like noises chattering away to the squiggly noises and other strange sci fi space echoes with sort of like steel pan de-tuned in space, mutated with whooshing noises, as a didgeridoo like humming noise lies beneath everything.
Outro is a repeating revolving miasma of noise battering at your mind, slowly lessening as different machines are turned off, or put out of their misery, until it's time to find something a bit more pleasant to listen to instead.
Find out more at https://ffm.to/througharoom https://billnace.bandcamp.com/album/through-a-room
