Whore's Breath — This Album Is Untitled

Here’s a new two-track digital album from this respected and talented Cincinnati-based wall noise project. Each track hits around the fifteen-minute mark- the first is a decidedly textural, detailed affair. The second is more of a searing & layered take on the ‘wall form.

Cover art-wise, we get a hazed/ monochrome picture of what looks like a surface covered either thick mucus or maybe pus. The image features a few lines of glitching in one corner.

First up, we have “This Track Is Untitled”- this ‘wall’ is built around a steadily rolling selection of pops, snaps, combings, and crunches. Together, these elements create a busy yet rather organic feel. I’m getting images of a large roller moving through a treeless part of a forest- finding brittle seed cases, twigs, branches, acorns, and conkers. The ‘wall’ is enclosing, yet kind of confining in its unfold. It reminds me of a more intense version of the time I walked through a forest in the winter, my boots popping & snapping the frozen earth & leaves.

Next is “This Track Is, Also Untitled”. Here we find a mix of thicker rolling on/ off roasts, searing roams, and more hacking crude rips, shreds, and jagged cracks. Later, this rather troubling rasping breath element can be heard ever so often. This ‘wall’ feels so intense and ear drum ripping, with a feeling of a rapid amping up and wildly arching power supply. Though it’s built around interlocking & just missing each other textures, there is a fairly uniform flow to the whole, though there are still some rewarding/ jarring shifts here & there.

This Album Is Untitled is yet another worthwhile release in Whore Breath's rapidly growing discography- showing once again that it remains one of the consistent & rewarding projects in the worldwide wall noise scene today.