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Drawn-Out Agony - Pale Guilt [Basement Corner Emission - 2024]

Pale Guilt is just over an hour’s worth of raw ‘n’ rumbling walled noise from this Moscow-based project. The single-track work is extremely heady with murky subterranean intent and often feels like it could be a recording of the slow awakening of some vast underground monster- as it stretches and snorts out clumps of earth.

The release appears on Portland’s Basement Corner Emissions. Been presented here, as with much of the scenes output in the form of a digital-only release. For the cover artwork, we have a crude and dense monochrome painting made up of smudged masses, drips, and slashes. The release can be found just here.

The single track comes in at just shy of the one hour and two minutes mark. The decidedly murky  & crude ‘wall’ is built around a mixture of rolling low-end tumble ‘n’ rumble edged with sub-tone buffet, grain grit, and bay.  There seems little formal shape here- yet, there are most certainly fixed tones & patterns present- though these are extremely base & basic. 
The whole thing has a rather numbing overload quality, and when you in the right wanting-to-block-the-whole-world-out/ numbed sonic nihilism mood this is perfect.

So Pale Guilt won’t win any prizes for either its nuanced, creative, or daring take on wall-making. If you are in the mood for either a weighted sonic crushing or a crudely pressing audio grey out- this will most certainly do the trick.

Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5

Roger Batty
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