No Fun HNW/ Hana Haruna — Split

Here we have a US wall noise split- it’s a two-track affair. Moving from the crude/raw/ at points unpredictable walling of South Carolina’s No Fun HNW. Onto the thicker/ more set-yet-detailed attack of Portland’s Hana Haruna.

This is a digital release on Portland’s Basement Corner Emissions. For the cover art, we have a side view of half of a woman's face/ bra, with what looks like blood splashes on the wall above it. The release can be found here.

Both tracks featured run at near the half an hour mark, and each gives their own take on the walled noise form, making for an engaging and rewardly searing split.

First up, we have No Fun HNW with “Prayerbook Propaganda”. The tracks open with around seven minutes of set yet constantly folding mid-range noise flow- this sounds akin to long ragged and knotted hair being combed over and over again( odd image I know, but that’s what I’m getting). After this point, we get sudden on/off sometimes long/sometimes short additions of other noise layers- be they rough churns, swirl ingrips, or even on one occasion a higher tone pitch darts.  The track rather brought to mind the very roughshod/ unpredictable raw quality of some of the work put out by early 2000s project Vargrwulf.

Next is Hana Haruna’s “Ichika Miri”. Here, we find a more set, denser, but detailed collection of textures, which may/ may not be subtly adjusted over the tracks' half an hour runtime. The central/ main texture here is a slightly sonically set back tumbling/ rolling low end- this isn’t quite fully rounded/perfect in its repetitions, and at points it feels like it may totally tumble off its obit- but never does. This is surrounded by a fairly complex selection of smaller/ at points insect-like scrapes, drags, scratches, and spins. At first, you of course hone in on the faint low end, but as time ticks on, you focus on the wonderful, detailed/ rewarding universe of smaller textures.

So, in conclusion, this is a rewarding split, with two nicely contrasting ‘walls’ – can’t really ask for more from a wall noise split.