
Vomir - Cloîtrez Et Tuez Vous Tous [Decimation Sociale/Narcolepsia/4iB Records - 2017]Cloîtrez Et Tuez Vous Tous is one of the more recent releases from French walled noise legend Vomir. And it’s also one of the larger edition from the project, as it comes in an edition of 300 copies pro pressed CD copies. The CD comes in a mini gatefold, and this takes in monochrome artwork. The front & back covers features a strange statue or monument-like structure- which is seemingly made out of draped grey sheets, metal poles, & possible lines if barbed wire. And inside the albums title is in grim gothic text, there's a head dressed in leather bondage mask, and four nails.
The single hour-long track is self-titled, and this roughly translates to Cloitrez And Kill You All. And as we’ve come to expect from this project the flow of the track here is unstoppable & firm in its feel. Though I’d say it sounds on the whole slightly cleaner & less crude in its sound & production, though this is still extremely dense & brain pummelling wall matter.
The ‘wall’ brings together the following elements: A rapid- yet blunt gallop, a lashing & slightly rapidly selection of bubbling tones, distant rushing & juddering sub-tones, and some very subtle spurting tones. The whole thing sounds like one's head is been continually held under a constant rushing ice cold tap in a vast steel & stained bath- as the tones really numb you in submission. I’d say compared with some of Vomir’s past releases there is a nice balance of both tonal clarity, yet also rushing numbness- which is a difficult thing to carry off-so this shows his mastery of the wall-form
Cloîtrez Et Tuez Vous Tous is a wonderfully numbing, coldly un-relenting, and totally nihilistic submersion in HNW craft. Now some eleven years into its lifetime the Vomir project still remains as intense-yet-brutally invigorating as it ever was.
     Roger Batty
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