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An Innocent Young Throat Cutter & The Ri - Supply Nurse Could Self Destruct [Lake Shark HN - 2009]

This is a cdr reissue of a 2005 album by Richard Ramirez’s An Innocent Young Throat Cutter project(which also featured Isabella K at this time). The album shows the pair in a more atmospheric, textured & at times almost ambient take on HNW & static harsh noise making. The disc also features a new track in which The Rita remixes another AIYTC album from 2008.

The original album is made up of five relatively short(by HNW standards) tracks that fall between three & just over five minutes a piece. The new track takes up the largest part of the disc with it’s seventeen minute length. Up first we have ‘Part one’  which finds slowed, shuddering & bleak stretches of atmospheric static tone dwells & ebbs. Through-out the track there are sudden dips into what could once have been creepy & doomed church organ hovers; but are now droned & muffled out  sinister tone drifts. Later on ‘Part four’ starts out with thick wisps of dammed, gothic & muffled static tentacles that wrap round you like sonic cobwebs. Before the track slides into more active & defined interlocking & almost 3D static tone nets. All of the five tracks nicely drift, shift & atmospherically dart from maps of ghost like jitter, onto muffled downpours, through to eerier aquatic like knock’s & simmers, up to hovering & shadowy boils; yet it never becomes too harsh, dense or seared in it’s attack with the whole of the original album having this haunted, gothic & muffled horrifying air about it.

The Rita’s new remixed track is entitled ‘French Sex Murders’ (after the AIYTC album it remixers). This kicks in a lot  thicker, brutal & sharp then the other five tracks. Though it does still retain some of the gothic & horror licked edge of the other tracks; it’s just ten times more intense & seared in its attack. So you could see the original five tracks like a dazed & hazy yet dangerous & times vaguely painful wonder through cobweb licked corridors where distant violence & creepiness can be heard. Then the Rita’s track is when you find & come  face to face with the violence, horror & creepiness- and it burns out your mind (and hearing).

All told a very worthy reissue of this long out of print, rewarding & grim slice of horrifying & shifting often relatively subtle  static tone dwell ‘n’ shift. With the added extra of the Rita’s  remix track which sears & barbaric batters the original albums creepy, sometimes ghostly yet sadistic tone maps.

Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5

Roger Batty
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