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Blank Flags - Self Titled [HarshFuckedForLife - 2010]

This C90 is the first self titled release from Swedish HNW project that features members of industrial/noise project Crest218. The tape features two side long tracks of active yet very thick ‘walled’ matter.

Side one is taken up by “Worship no-one” and the track jumps straight in with a very rapid, thick and  persistent ‘wall’ of roaring noise. As the  track moves into it’s  second minute mark sudden almost glitching like swirls of judder appear, and over the next few minutes these start to take centre stage with the roaring texture been vigorous battered around in the foreground of the track. Over the tracks remaining half an hour or so, the pace is kept break- neck, very thick, yet rewardingly shifting as judders morph into jitters, through into persistent weather battering roars and back again. The track is certainly a very effective and gradually moping slice of HNW matter that never really thins out or losers depth in it’s constant fast raging feel and bombardment.

Over onto side two and we have “Trust Nothing” which takes up this side. This ‘wall’ starts off with a more electronic drilling meets slight debris judder undertone; like if pressed your head to a wall that’s been drilled through from the other side by a several foot wide drilling machine. By the three and a half minute mark a smaller crackling static jitter is added to the electro boring and sudden juddering textures- this  really makes for an very entrancing mix of textures, and really keeps your mind engrossed yet challenged as you follow the tight weave and mix of the 'wall'. By the tracks mid-way mark  the  drilling tone becomes very fixed textural,  but the static tone has become erratic, aggravated  and almost randomly punchy in it’s attack which really pulls you in deeper & deeper to the track. By the last ten minute or so the whole ‘wall’ starts the shift and rotate through judders, drills and thick hacks- yet it still keeps thick, persistent and 100 percent wall like. Like the first sides ‘wall’ it’s very thick & persistent through-out it’s forty five minute running time, and though the first sides great I’ll have to say this sides my favourite of the two, as I really dig the smaller loop  that grows to  become a bigger static jitter ‘n’ punch, as it’s such a nice contrast between this  tone and the deeper drilling textures.

So this C90 offers up two very dense, thick and persistent slices of HNW that nicely shift and weave there way along each of there forty minute caustic trails. Yet another great release from this Swedish based HNW tape label.

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Roger Batty
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