Vomir — Attache À Ton Esprit Un Éternel Bourreau

“Attache À Ton Esprit Un Éternel Bourreau” is the second full length vinyl LP from the french  master of brutal & unrelenting HNW. And it offers up two thick and punishing yet fairly different sounding slices of walled noise. The albums title roughly translates to “To your sprit an eternal torture is attached”, which of course is very apt as both  sides of vinyl are deeply torturous & they seem almost eternal when your locked with in thier pummelling & unrelenting walls of noise.

The black on black vinyl comes in the distinct silver ink on black card house design of the Urashima label. The front cover features large blocky text of the words HNW & VOMIR, which have in-between them smaller text taking in  the release title - it’s simple yet nicely powerful & monolithic  design that nicely fits the battering & punishing sonics with-in.  On the back cover there’s just the skull & butterfly logo of Urashima label & the labels name. There’s an single A5 semi glossy inlay with-in the sleeve,and this features on one side French prose by Vomir in white text on black backing  & on the other side the Urashima logo & who mastered the tracks again in white  text on black.

So onto the brutal & unrelenting sonics inside- both tracks come in around the fourteen & a half minute mark, and both tracks are untitled. The first sides ‘wall’ hypntiocally mixers together two noise tones- firstly a slowed, murky, grim & lonesome texture that sounds like a boiled up yet  distance subterranean drone. And secondly a faster locked juddering ‘n’ caustically circling tonality. Vomir meddles these two elements into a great entrancing mixture of dungeon like gloom & faster unrelenting torture. I really like the way that seemingly the two tones seem to shift from back to front of the ‘walls’ sound picture, and I also like  the way Vomir’s  creates this great sense of almost three dimensional sonic imprisonment between the two tones.

Side twos track is a more straight forward mixture of crusty ’n’ jumping static repetition that’s underfed by  line of barely moving sea bed like bitter 'n' noisy rumble.  This track seems to go much more for the throat, and envelope the listener in a mass of crushing, crackling and crusty sound. It doesn’t have the 3D like feel of the first track, but it’s still very brutally enjoyable in it’s intent & unfold.

For me “Attache À Ton Esprit Un Éternel Bourreau”  is one of the highlights of this years releases from Vomir- as both sides/ tracks here attack you in a different manner, yet both sides/tracks are equally unforgiving, brutal & entrancing. This  release comes in a pressing of 99 copies, so hopefully you’ll be more likely to get hold of a copy of this compared with some of this projects smaller numbered releases.