Raté — L7hN

L7hN is a digital release that serves up two roughshod and rapidly battering examples of walled noise from this Bordeaux-based project. Each track runs at around the thirteen-minute mark- shifting between an all-out bass-ripped attack, and a blend of constant churning crunch/sinister hiss.

Raté  has been active since Nov last year, releasing around thirty releases to date, so a fairly prolific wall project. I’ve reviewed a few of the project's releases now, finding  it (largely) a consistent wall noise project, and a worthy addition to the French wall noise scene- which of course has birthed some great acts like Vomir, Chier, and all the projects connected to Julien Skrobek.

We open up with “vfV7Ve”. Here we find a rapidly racing blend of blunt rub ‘n’ reel,  sparking static feast, and murky bass rattle. It brings to mind images of an undersea diver swimming rapidly away, trying to avoid a building pace underwater tsunami. It’s a great manic and roughshod ‘wall’, with at points moments where the tones seem blend/ blur because of their increasing pace, though in reality I think it’s a set/ fixed ‘wall’.

Next/ lastly, we have  “GF7bgK “- here we find a blend of set gas like hiss, constantly juddering rip, and a distant roughshod bass hack. Though the  ‘wall’ is rapid, it manages to feel both crude & cumbersome, with undertones of manic unease. You just keep expecting something very unsettling to suddenly come from the ‘wall’- yet it never does.

L7hN  is another worthy release from Raté- this is a self put out  digital release, so head  over to hear/download it  here.