To describe this improvised live effort, recorded at the Ozlo Jazzfestival in 2010 as cacophonous wouldn’t really convey the discordant instrumental chaos of static, crackles, feedback, blips and clattering percussion that make up the five tracks here.
‘Slugs for Lunch’ builds up to a hellish, screaming whorl of sound worthy of Throbbing Gristle, while the album’s centrepiece, the 21-minute ‘Bring ‘Em On’ is queasy, clattering, a succession of endless high-pitched drones and relentless incidentals, pinned together with cracking distortion and pulled apart by squalls of feedback and an endless cymbal-driven drum roil that never for a second threatens to forge any semblance of a rhythm. It’s a monumental racket that pushes the listener’s endurance to the limit…and then continues to gnaw at those frayed nerves and tortured eardrums.
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‘Happy After Party Dance’, the set’s 13-minute closer doesn’t exactly offer much respite, being more of the same, culminating in a scribble of scratchy feedback and frenzied noise that slowly tapers off to a quiet ring of sustain.
It must’ve been quite a performance to behold – assuming the room didn’t empty in the first five minutes.
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