
Vomir/ The Godless Girl - Le Vide [Ascitic Records - 2010]“Le Vide” is a split HNW C40 tape that’s inspired by the work of French Neo-Dada artist Yves Klein-who worked between the late 1940’s and early 1960’. It brings together a side a piece from unrelenting French HNW master Vomir and male/ female Texas based HNW duo The Godless Girl. On the first side we have an single untitled track from Vomir which finds the Frenchman offering up a fast paced, truly unforgiving ‘wall’ of crude bass like judder ‘n’ caustic crush. For it’s total runnig time the ‘wall’ hammers and rages away at you in a typically uncompromising Vomir fashion- with zero movement, extremely furiousness and truly unrelenting sonic barbarism. All told it’s another worthy slice of what Vomir does best- extremely, thick and bone/hope crushing 'wall making'. Over onto side two and we have another untitled side long track from The Godless Girl- a Texas male & female duo (Randa and Nathan Golub, Nathan also is in Harsh noise project Ascites) who are the first husband and wife HNW project I’m aware of . Their track/side stars up as a tight ‘n’ hacking static judder that’s ghosted by crisp static after grain. The track keeps these wo main tones through-out its length, but as the track goes along the main juddering tone switchers rather nicely between more dragging almost droning tendencies and more faster hacks, and the crisp after grain becomes often more jitter bound & static textured in it’s make-up. This is my first taste of this projects work, and I must say I’m very impressed with the way this track mangers to keep a tense and appealing ‘wall’ going, but also puts in some textural progression and shift with-out losing the tracks urgency or focus. The tape comes in a simple, but effective card sleeve that features a black and white picture of a interior wall with a weird curtain door in the middle of it. The tape it self features retro embossed white lettering and black tape sticker on both sides of tape. So in summing up this split offers up two distinctly different, but equally rewarding takes on wall-making that are packaged in a low-fi yet arty manner.
     Roger Batty
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