SLOWGURN — Miracle Drug

Miracle Drug is a three-track digital wall noise EP. It features around twenty-four minutes of oppressive rumble ‘n’ static grit bound wall crafting, which features some rewardingly muffled industrial-like edges.

SLOWGURN is the new project from UK’s Tom Wilson, who's also behind the excellent Night Porter project- who we reviewed a few releases of early on this year. As far as I can gather this is the projects second release. The digital download release features a picture of a laughing and sinister-looking man wearing a see-through plastic mask. To check out this release drop by here. 

First up we have the just over six minutes of “00003”- here we find a rather eerier-yet-lightly baying mixture of muffled rumble ‘n’ knocked, which is edged with a line of tiny jittering gritty. Together these elements create a feeling of barren bustling, as if you are sheltering in the grey half-light of some creepy cobwebbed and hay dust barn as a bleak and batter snowstorm rages on outside.

Next, we have “00004” this just over eight minutes track is a lot more tense-yet-no less muffled in its attack. Here we have a dragged-out bass purr, cluttering-yet-tight static judder, and a lightly juddering grit play.

Lastly, we have “00005- this comes in at just shy of the ten and a half minute mark. We find here a blend a rumbling- slight- distant machine boring drone, constantly rattling small toned grit rattle, and a faint roam ‘n’ droning undercurrent. Together these elements create a feeling akin to being slowly fed through a vast revibrating machine structure- as an earthquake shifts by.

Miracle Drug is a rewarding three-track release- with each of the ‘wall’s been embedded with a worthy feeling of churning ‘n’ rumbling desolation. I’ll most certainly be checking out some more work from SLOWGURN