Hal Hutchinson — Catacombs
'Catacombs' is made up of a single twenty two minute track which finds Hutchinson starting-out the piece with a thick & grey muffled roaring wall of sound. And as the piece goes on he shifts into sonic view: distant & muffled forking feed-back sears, deep crusty & ugly rumbles, nasty subterranean bass hammerings, grim clouds of peddle abuse, and tight grey tone emissions. The whole track is thick & choked by this mean, nasty, muffled & extremely lo-fi production that feels like it could literally have been recorded in a faeces incrusted, dried blood splattered & stark white bone litter catacombs. This is noise at it most ugly, grainy & hopeless- there is no let up or respite anywhere in the track it just greyly & painful thuds, pounds & grimly pummels into you over & over again.
A purely nasty excise in punishing & hopeless noise making that shows Hutchinson has the ability to keep his noise craft thick & bleak, yet barrenly active & glumly stumbling too.