Love Katy — Rainbow Haired Starlet
The CDR consist of two untitled tracks- the first track comes in at just over the two minute mark and is really an amusing intro to the album as it features a radio or TV interview with Ms Perry as she just about to get her breast cast for a cancer charity. Track two is the ‘walled noise’ meat of the release & comes in at the 37.45 mark, and after a noise abused and bent sample of one of Ms Perrys tunes we drop into the brutal meat sonic. The tracks ‘wall’ is a active & dare I say quite bright though brutal mixture of juddering, jitter & caustic rolling noise textures, and at times there’s almost a noised up percussive feel to the track- this could possible come from some crude mangling of Ms Perrys music, through it’s never fully defined into anything really recognizable. On the whole the ‘wall’ is very thick & encasing in it’s textural feel, yet over the tracks near on forty minute runtime there’s a nice feeling of shifting with-in the textural layers and from time to time it homes in on three or four second pitch sustains- though these never fully break the ‘walls’ sonic skin. All told it’s an enjoyable, active and quite distinctive slice of wall-making, that I find myself enjoying through out, unlike some of the projects early efforts which felt a little hit ‘n’ miss & unfocused.
“Rainbow Haired Starlet” is a bright, active yet still brutal take on the whole HNW genre- so if you fancy something a little different from the dour, macabre and inward looking themes & sounds of most HNW this certainly is worthy of your time.