Io — True

True is a densely tight and airlessly constricting example of wall-craft from this Brazilian project. The single just over half-an-hour track brings together tautly reeling pull ‘n’ grind, with lightly static grain feast.

The release is a digital download on Portland, Oregon Basement Corner Emission. Cover artwork wise we have a monochrome picture of the bottom half of a woman’s face- she has a nose piercing and is pressing a knife to her tongue. The release can be found just here. 

The track comes in at the 30.02 mark, and it’s an unforgiving take on the HNW from beginning to end. The ‘wall’ is built around a rapid and sustained reeling low end, which sounds both like a speeding rope unreeling & a thinner grind. Around/ through this we have static grain- this feels both feasting, yet at the same time wet/ tightly splashing in its attack. Together the elements create a very pin-you-down ‘n’ grind your face off slab of HWN. As the track progresses I’m get some rather neat sonic illusion occurring- where the reeling sounds like it’s slow or splitting somehow, and static elements feel more rapid in its flow- but I think the reality is, that this is a fixed wall.

For those looking for head-a-vice rush/ intensity wall making True will most certainly hit the spot- and I rather enjoy the way the elements are balanced together to create some effective sonic illusion. Another promising release from this up-and-coming female wall maker.