Control features two half-an-hour examples of densely numbing & greyly battering walled noise from US project Impulse Kill. The release appears as either a C60 or digital download on Fort Worth’s Hot Fuzz- I’m reviewing the latter on these two.

Impulse Kill is one of the projects of Spokane, Washington Jason Wolpert- who was quite active in the wall noise scene between 2015 & 2019- he ran the Lost Light Records label, and was behind the self-harm /suicidal-themed wall project Joli.  Impulse Kill has been active since 2015- though it’s not terribly prolific- having ten or so releases to its name, whereas Joli had thirty-plus. Also, Impulse Kill started as a harsh noise project- but this two-tracker is most certainly wall.

Each track hits at spot on the thirty-minute mark. And first up we have “Control”. Here have a two-layered constant pelt bound wall- there’s a low slight trudging one, and this is topped by a beaded more static hack. There is a great feeling of hopeless battering about the track- at points it feels like it could stumble, and cut out- but it never does                           

Next, we have up “Submission” here we find a tight ‘n’ tense blend of constantly rolling noise drone & juddering rattle.  The drone has at points, a rather numbing & industrial quality about it. While the rattle has a slight wheel spoke-like feel to its pattern- and at moments I’m sure I can make of out an off pattern small jittering grit subtones from time to time, though I’m sure how much of these are just a trick of the 'wall'. It’s a fairly simplistic- but rewardingly enough wall, that balances numbing grey-ness with static-focused rattle.

It's great to see Mr Wolpert reappearing on the wall-noise scene again, and I hope this isn’t his last foray into the genre. Yes, neither wall will win awards for ordinality, or major textural flare- but as a release ut's worthwhile in its numbing & nihilistic attack.