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It's A Lunken - Bound [Twilight Luggage - 2010]

“Bound” creates an bleak and gloomy, yet playful and edgy selection of tracks that sit somewhere between: creepy yet taut improv, unsettling sparse ‘n’ rhythmic clusters of field recordings, souring and wavering lo-fi classical swoons, doom metal,  slightly quirky  ritual precision, atmopsric junk metal elements and the very odd bleack simmer of noise texture

Each of the six tracks on offer here drift along in quite a loose, adventurous and ultimately very rewarding manner- any one track here can move or drift from: ritual clunking ‘n’ picking simmers,  onto brooding cello dread scapes, through to slow sustained ‘n’ nasty doom riff crawls, onto to eerier improv scuttles ‘n’ clutters over creepy ritual pitch shimmers. Yet for all the tracks loose and spaced-out feel there are never really any moments of total silence or gaps in the sonic proceedings, as the albums grim yet slight edgy atmospheric wheel is always turning.  Most of the tracks here have no consistent or continuous rhythmic heart behind them, it’s only the last track “Mk 32 Bound and drowned” that has a more sliding ‘n’ slowly stabbing doom beat to it, but even the this still cuts out ever so often. Also we have shouting and vein bulging male singing on the last track, who I guess once more, adds a bit tighter structure to the track

I can see this appealing to those who enjoy loose, sometimes noisy improv based doomed and darkly atmospheric sonics, though I certainly can’t see this appealing to your more straight edged doom fan as this is just too twisted, loose and experimental in it’s feel. Anyway for me it’s a very darkly rewarding and twisting journey that never seems to total loses it’s element of surprise and grim edginess.

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Roger Batty
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