- When
- Mar 2012
This is a release on Type Records, the label I co-founded with John Xela. John was responsible for its musical output; I contributed in the first few years on design and running the label. The catalogue is archived here for posterity.
Ohio-based noise veteran Mike Shiflet's decomposed visions were put into crystal clear focus on 2011's 'Sufferers', and 'Merciless' is that record's seismic companion piece. We are introduced to its landscape with the hospital-room grind of 'Feeble Breaths', a dense slab of guitar plucks, compressed air coughs and dentists drill squeals. Shiflet shows his tender side on the meltingly epic 'Exodus and Exile', a cascade of synthesizer tones that echo the most haunting moments of Ligeti or even Arvo Part, while the title track is an extended collaboration with noise superstar C Spencer Yeh, matching his signature violin abuse with Shiflet's shimmering electro-acoustic treatments.
Made at Type.
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Earlier in music: Vatican Shadow — Kneel Before Religious Icons. Later in music: Choosing things that matter.