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Thursday, August 03, 2006

Possessed children in the middle of hurricane



Wold - Lug-dunum (mp3)
This band is as strange as their logo. Wold is a trio from Canada. I have their full length "L.O.T.M.P." and it's quite hard to take the music on it as songs. These are more like sound patterns or simple themes, which can become songs if there would be some progression. But it's all about repeating one motif again and again for five minutes. It consists various entwining synthesizer lines, a lot of distorted noise which may be bass guitar, constant guitar solo catharsis, fast droning artificial computer rhythm and some typical shrieking thrown on top of it. The music sounds like this - it's fullmoon, a secret sect of evil possessed children are performing a voodoo ritual in their backyard treehouse with strange hypnotic music played on tiny Casio synthesizers. And the quality is of a fieldrecording made in the middle of a hurricane. When compared with other bands, it would be the spaced out sound of Striborg or the most tortured shoegaze noise of My Bloody Valentine mixed with the absurdic strangeness of Bakbakwalanooksiwae. Wold is a very intensive psychedelic mass with freaky cosmic atmosphere. And it isn't so aggressive in a typical way. It's too autistic for that. Wold has some sort of ideological background. When it comes to all kind of abstract philosophical theories, I know about it as much as I know about sports. In university I used to get headache during all the lectures about Heidegger and such. But it's part of the whole weird Wold picture - weird music, weird logo, weird pseudonyms (Fortress Crookedjaw) and weird conception.

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