Listening To My Future presents the listener with ninety minutes of thick ‘n’ crushing walled noise from the long-running Californian HNW project Koobaatoo Asparagus. The digital download album features two forty-five-minute ‘walls’, and each is as brutally engaging/ encasing as the other.

The release is a self-released digital download- with the monochrome cover featuring a  charcoal sketch of three women’s faces- they look either half asleep, or possibly dead- with each having their head on its shoulder. The release can be downloaded directly from here. 

Both tracks are self-titled, and the first one comes in spot on the forty-five-minute mark. It’s built around a rapid ‘n’ ragging blend of low-end judder, faint-yet-constant murky droning, and a second just a few pitches higher judder. The whole thing has a wonderful feeling of ragged underground cave rock churning. As both judders share a similar tonal range, but often seem to run at just slightly different pace- we get a great sensation of a slow grind shift in pace, but in reality, I think the whole thing is very much fixed. The murky droning/ come shadowy reverb adds a neat feeling of subtle brooding unease to the proceedings. So as a result, I found myself well & truly buried within the wall for its full length.

The second track comes in at ten seconds over the forty-five-minute mark. And here we find a more roughshod mixture of rapidly rattling bass hack, constantly simmering drone rumble, and blunter slightly higher juddering. Together these create a wonderful raw and urgent ‘wall’ with the rumble undercarriage creating a subtle feeling of foreboding unease- so the track feels like you are stood at the of a long dark subterranean tunnel, as something you can’t quite fully define is move towards you at a building speed. This is once again a fairly compelling ‘wall’, though maybe not quite as engaging as the first track.

Listening To My Future is another consistent wall noise release from one of the more prolific and long-running projects of the US scene. If your looking for dense ‘n’ battering no-nonsense wall matter, which equally enchants and batters the listener- check this out, and support one of the most active figures in the US wall-noise scene