Pablito Clon — Social Phobia

Social Phobia is the first walled-noise release from this Argentinean project, which is helmed by poet and musician Pablo Albornoz. The release features a single twenty-four-minute example of walled noise, which blends galloping crunch with wayward/ buffeting fuzz.

The release appears as a digital release on Poland’s Gates Of Hypnos. The monochrome artwork features what looks like a dark/ shadowy head with curtains in the background, and on the whole, it looks rather Vomir like?!....which is a little strange. The release can be found here. 

The self-titled track comes in at the 24.47 mark, and is a fairly appealing shot of shorter length HNW. It’s built around a busy/ messy blend of galloping-to-billowing bound low end crunch- this is battered by pelting grains of static fuzz, chop, and splutter. Together they create a nice feeling of roughshod manic-ness, which I could have easily listened to for another half an hour or so. And if you enjoy messily baying 'n' battering wall matter, I think you equally enjoy what we have here.

It's always nice to see new artists step into the walled noise scene, and Pablito Clon certainly shows promise with this release…. though visually I think it needs to find its own identity, as ripping off Vomir is more than a little lazy, and it meant I didn’t mark this quite as high as I might have!