Placenta Lyposuction — Lubanje i kosti

Lubanje i kosti ( translated Skull And Bones) is a recent two-track release from Croatian wall noise project Placenta Lyposuction. The release appeared as a digital download on Gates Of Hypnos, and self-released CDR/ tape by the project itself. Each of the two tracks lasts around the thirty-minute mark- with each been nicely dense and bone bowing intense in their attack.

The cover artwork looks decidedly necro- it’s a grainy black and white affair, taking in ancient difficult to read texts and a picture of a bone chandelier. The CDR/ tape release is out of print now, so the digital download is the only option now.

First up we have the track “Lubanje” which finds a blend of tight and boorish blunt bass batter, and rattling-to-trudging static judder. The track opens with a burred 'n' bumbling mid-range blended into the already mentioned textures, but this fades back fairly soon for a largely bass and static judder bound paring, though from time to time we get some neat more grainy-yet-chalky static sub-tone detail.  The ‘wall’ is both meaty, yet constricting and tense- with most of the focus going into the numbing-yet-battering attack, which keeps you held though-out its thirty-minute runtime.

Next, we have “Kosti”- here we have a more set and starkly droning bass tone, which is surrounded by crisp and grainy judders. The textural make-up of this track is much more stripped/ simple, but the blend of textures create a wonderfully ghoulish and moodily involving track. This ‘wall’ very much feels like it relates to the release's title, as the judders have a decidedly scaping bone type quilty, and the low end has a nice feel of grim endless subterranean black-ness. The two textures are nicely mixed together for maximum effect- so the low end really feels like it’s drilling into your head, and the judder is almost scratching at your ears/ face, like a skeletons hand crawling at your flesh.

Placenta Lyposuction is a project that's been active on and off since around 2009, so it’s great to see it’s still creating worthy/ rewarding wall craft after all these years. So, I’d say if you enjoy long-form wall-craft, with ghoulishly moody undercurrents you really need to be checking out Lubanje i kosti.