Sudden Infant — Invocation of the Aural Slave Gods

Something very strange this way comes, you see Sudden infants take on sound is macabrely  devilish, leaving the listener wonder if they should  laugh darkly or get creeped  out. They use noise as a spring board, but touch down in lots of other genres, odd celectronica, and eerier soundtrack, punked and noised up rock, sinister ambience, and Musique concrète.

Noise Relaxation opens up the proceedings, with to being with seems like a self relax course, but the female Commentary  gets odder and more unhinged as the track develops. Strange helicopter blade sound, pans across the audio landscape, then the track bombards you with rhythmic smashing of glass. Ecstatic Ectoplasmic eruption is a deeply unhinged  rhythmic  collage of chocking, burping, and other human digestive sounds, played over a music box, pitter patter. The serpent and the rainbow, takes in bizarre water splashing sound, rippling chimes and bird song, giving a strangle mix of relaxation, and sinister undertones. Monks of Venus is thick with  a noisy ritualistic air, the pounding gong sound, burnt by noise twists, and the chanting voices echo in your head, very effective indeed, like watching a out of control ritual, the participants  lost in a. fevered blood lust .

So an album to puzzle, amuse and worry. And one I can see my self playing again and again. With out doubt a twisted masterpiece.