Raté — Ode à l'échec

Ode à l'échec (Ode To Failure) is a recent four-track release from the French wall noise project Raté. Each of the tracks runs between five and thirteen minutes, with the sound moving between very full/ overloaded, taut, and seared.

This is an digital self-release- with cover artwork taking in three coloured digital grid photo, overlaid in the corner with cut-up text like a project title. The album can be found just here 

We open with “Ode 1” here we have a very full/ dense ‘wall’- it brings together a rapidly galloping bass cluttering, with baying ‘n’ smashing static crash ‘n’ shred. The two main elements are decidedly contrasting & thick in their own right, but together they create a near total white out, though you can just make out each one's shape.

Next is “Ode 2”, it opens with a quick burst/ blend of taut, wiry chop and rising sear- before diving into a blend of mid-range failing hard-drive-like drone- with a fainter static grit cyclic element. The main texture is a tad too overwhelming, meaning it is difficult to make out the beneath elements.

“Ode 3” is built around a constantly taut ‘n’ jumping electro texture- this is underlaid by a juddering/ lightly cluttered grained static element. I really enjoyed the blends of electro urgency and more stumbling/slightly uneven static grainy clutter.

On “Ode 4” after a sudden manic grain shear- we shift into a blend of buffing wind bay  ‘n’ rip, and thicker juddering/ to lightly bucking mids.  This track is probably the most successful with the textured mix/ blend.

Ode à l'échec is another decent enough release from Raté- with a fairly varied selection of ‘walls’.