Expose Your Eyes — Rest
Rest is a new double CDR release from Expose Your Eyes Aka West Yorkshire based noisemaker Paul Harrison. Over the two-discs, we get a total of twenty-eight tracks, with electro noise-based sound shifting from harsh noise droning & searing textural work-outs, to more rhythmically fired affairs, through to more surreal/ playful if still seared noisy experimentation.
The Expose Your Eye project began in the year 1990- taking influence from both PE and harsh noise genres, but trying to lead their own distinctive electro fueled take on proceedings- blending drone/ dense ambient elements into the mix. They have coming on for eighty releases to their name- taking in splits, shorts, and full-lengths.
Rest brings together a mix of choice cuts and specially reworked versions of more recent work- and we get a fair bit of variation and shift over the two discs. On the first disc we go from swirling ‘n’ churning “Pants And Socks” which is built around a layering up mixture of hiss, spray, and choppy washing texturing. Onto the plonking piano keys, wonky electro warbling, and crunching tones of “Jigsaw Fourth Piece” , through to disorientating voice chop-ness meets purring noise grain fuzz “Age Of Desire”. We have dense phaser judder ‘n’ sweep meets electro bass simmer of “The Ultraspace Point Of View Edit”, or fizzing noise grain meets high-end sear sustains of “Audacious”.
On the second disc we go from the smacking ‘n’ hissing grained beat snap meets drifting synth cute-ness of “Big Bag(Spoke Up Mix). Onto the dated pre-set keyboard dart and electro vibe wooziness of “Strawberry Tree”, through to the thick bass meets electro choppy swim of “Volcano Jungle Reworking”. And finishing off disc/ release we have the churning bass billow and grainy swish of “Feel My Pain( aka Scared For Life)” which hints that it might suddenly go all harmonic ‘n’ brooding yet never does, but instead churns ‘n’ grates on in a most appealing electro-ramshackle manner.
If you enjoy either the more noise fired and densely wonky side of electronica, or surreal-yet-crude harsh noise with clearly defined electronic leanings; then this two-disc set will most certainly be for you. Drop by here to buy a copy direct from the label.