Gordiacea — TensionoiseT
The first sides track is entitled “181214” and here we find a fairly dense, yet hazed & blurred wall. It’s built around a top layer of hammering 'n' pelting rainstorm like static- which has been both blunted & compressed somewhat- under this we have this slow sweeping & seesawing drone, which swishs back 'n' forth in a decidedly brooding and doomed manner. To me, this track brings to mind taking a car journey through a winter rainstorm, and you are bunged up with cold & feel somewhat hazed from cough medication. As the track progresses the two elements seemingly get more weathered/ hazed in their feel. On the whole, it’s certainly a fairly different take on wall-making, and the track brought to mind a more strung-out & blurred take on someone like Mouthus- which can’t be bad.
Side two-track is “190202”- with this track we get another decidedly dense-yet- blurred wall, and this time around we have a very thick blend of the following elements- buzz bound rumble, feasting & cluttering mids, with this strange almost harmonic purring sound blended in. There feels a very tense, heightened almost ritual feel to this wall, and this is very much underfed by on mass insect type feeling- as if you’ve been shrunk down and are trying to make your way through a beehive. Again it’s certainly another fair distinctive take on the walled noise form.
All in all, as debut go TensionoiseT is pretty damn good- with both walls been equally hammering-yet-entrancing it there attacks. I’ll certainly be keeping an eye out for future- and if you fancy scoring your self a copy of the release you can, as of this review the label still have copies left.