Tab In/Tab out — A Hard Day’s Night
A Hard Day’s Night severs up two slices of rough ‘n’ ready walled noise with a heroin fix theme. Each track rolls in just over the thirty-minute mark, and each is as weighty and body crushing as each other.
The release comes in the form of a digital download Indian based Ulka Pind Records- and we get a simple but serviceable enough black and white picture of someone getting a junk hit ready for the vein. Tab In/Tab out is the project of Seattle, Washington based Tim Burkland- it's been active since 2018, so far put out an impressive coming on for 100 releases- taking in splits and stand alones.
The two tracks are simply entitled “Cooking” and “Shooting”. The first track is a mixture of rapidly shredding low end, jittering and juddering mids, and some slight skipping crust bound texturing. Together these elements create a decidedly thick and grinding ‘wall’- which feels akin to been sent through an industrial rolling machine in a low gear- with the cogs and gears grinding into each other, as your flesh and bone are awkwardly pressed and forced together. The balance of the textures are well enough done, offering up rewarding weighty if not particularly original selection of textures for the ‘walls’ building blocks.
The second/ final track is a lot tauter and hacking in its attack- we have spitting 'n' spluttering bass element, this is joined a pulled out-static judder, and added to by slightly jumping ‘n’ buzzing subtones. If the first track was going through a roller machine- this track finds you laying twisted, bent, and broken at the machine end- surrounded by your raptured and weeping inner organs. I really enjoy the way the textures seem to drone and drill into each other, with the wonderfully thick and nasty bass tones been the focus of the ‘wall’ primal weight, but the other textures drawing you in with their basic, but effective patter-nation.
A Hard Day’s Night is the second release I’ve heard from Tab In/Tab out, and I must say I enjoyed it- so if you dig meaty and nasty wall-matter, this is certainly something you need to hear. Both tracks here are entrancing/ rewarding enough, but I’d say the second is the keeper- as I just love the spattering ‘n’ spluttering bass tones.