- When
- Feb 2013
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.
Boomkat, which stocked the label, still lists this record, filed under Extreme / Noise / Computer Music.
Working tirelessly at their craft since 2001, Hair Police are rare survivors of the rapidly dissolving US noise scene, made up of Mike Connelly (aka Failing Lights), Robert Beatty (aka Three Legged Race) and Trevor Tremaine. 'Mercurial Rites' is the trio's first proper full-length since 2008's 'Certainty of Swarms', and in typically obstinate form doesn't even slightly pander to the noise scene's mass exodus towards the dancefloor. Tape-saturated bells and gongs push up awkwardly against pounding, funereal percussion and the kind of disembodied screams we last heard on 80s-era Whitehouse sides.
Made at Type.
Earlier in the catalogue: Charlatan — Isolatarium TYPE112. Later in the catalogue: Geoff Mullen — Filtered Water TYPE114.