Wednesday, April 24, 2013

black pus - all my relations

BRIAN CHIPPENDALE of the legendary noise rock duo LIGHTNING BOLT has been recording solo as BLACK PUS for quite some time now-- a steady stream of feedback damaged CDRs beginning around 2005 and culminating with 2011's PRIMORDIAL PUS lp on LOAD RECORDS--but all those releases sat back seat to his main gig.  that is until now. BLACK PUS just released a new album out on THRILL JOCKEY entitled ALL MY RELATIONS and it takes his frenzied noise to a whole new transcendent / ear devastating level.....one that makes lightning bolt seem tame by comparison (and is sure to cement the album's place on my year end list)

all the key ingredients are here - distorto vocals / bass oscillations / free jazz meets punk thrash drum blasts / psychedelic walls of feedback / circuit bent electronics / all kinds of weird noises looped and fragmented.....ALL MY RELATIONS is brian chippendale's post modern / inner city, tribal / noise rock manifesto.....  it's as if everything we've learned from psych rock, hardcore, free jazz, krautrock, no wave and punk has been distilled down into one swirling epic eight song album........ hints of the masters of avant musical thinking are here; from coltrane to zorn, and glenn branca to throbbing gristle, not to mention faust, keiji haino and cluster.   maybe it seems like a bit to a stretch to put BLACK PUS next to such forward thinking visionaries, but that's exactly what this ALL MY RELATIONS is striving for, going way beyond the limitations of the loft show staple of the noise rock duo format......

BLACK PUS stretches outs the songs into very spiritual avant garde jazz / minimalist meets maximalist space......deconstructing all these sounds we've become comfortable with, making them sound fierce, ugly and mesmerizing again, and without so much as a guitar.  all you have to do is turn it up loud and let the music mutate and writhe around in yer ears........

BLACK PUS has composed some of the most conscience-shattering noise you'll hear all year long.  and for a LOAD / SKIN GRAFT RECORDS fanatic like me, it feels good to have another release to blown out my speakers with......

fans of any of the following noise mongers ought to rush out to yer local record shop now to grab ALL MY RELATIONS - RUINS, HELLA, FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, BOREDOMS, PINK & BROWN, SIGHTINGS, ORTHRELM, HAIR POLICE, NAKED CITY and/or HARRY PUSSY

this lp is fucking sick.  thanks THRILL JOCKEY.
BLACK PUS comes with the highest recommendation.....

LISTEN TO A PREVIEW OF ALL MY RELATIONS BELOW - (the whole lp can be streamed on thrill jockey's site here)


AND WATCH THE VIDEO FOR 1000 YEARS HERE -

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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