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PATERAS & ROBIN FOX
Coagulate
CD
2003
55.19
Synaesthesia, These Records distribution.
Exquisitely packaged (the cover work by Sarah Pirrie is outstanding),
intriguingly diverse, this succeeds as a series of excursions into
a strange, painful territory we can touch with our fingers but can't
see with our eyes. This is nowhere more true than the closing track
'Recombinant', which spins a web of whining feedback around gentle
chimes, creating a mournful, faintly sinister atmosphere which reverberates
between the listener's ears. Similarly 'Cranking The Dwarf', one
of the noisier track on the album, merrily twangs on your nerve
endings, with its chatter and gibber enveloped by blisters of grating
distortion. 'Circuits & Glass' is another standout, with bursts
of full-on electronic noise punctuated by speaker feedback and abrasive
clatters and tinkles. There's a lot of this sort of stuff about,
and in the main it sounds like a couple of blokes playing about
with their kit, making it up as they go along. That may be the case
with Pateras and Fox, neither
of whom I have previously heard of, but if they can produce a record
of this quality by so doing then good luck to them. 'Circuits &
Glass' could be Merzbow at his best, and I can
think of no higher compliment than that.
STEWART GOTT - 3 June 2003
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