Peter Kolovos – New Bodies LP (Thin Wrist)
Kolovos runs this Thin Wrist label, inactive for a spell, and played guitar in one of its acts, Open City. I will cop to having never paid attention. I tried to catch up by purchasing a water-damaged Open City LP, but was so grossed out by the black mold growing on the sleeve that I let it go. I know full well I was missing something, just like with those Burning Star Core records on the label I never got around to picking up. My sincere apologies to the Chief and bred’ren, here’s where I catch up: this is thee most disjointed guiterror on offer, shifting into full-on industrial menace in spots. Treatments of scrapes, detunings, blips and curls of feedback get Slap-Chopped over beds of iron hull drone and plate-shifting chaos, and occasionally coalesce into monstrous swells that’ll make you crap your pants, or at least check to make sure you didn’t. If you were looking for songs, there’s none here. Peals of reverb recall 101 Strings-style exotica, and Kolovos makes certain to pull all 101 of them out, with the pair of pliers he borrowed from the back alley dentist who lives next door. Three tracks, cut deep and loud by Rashard Becker – tin foil hat not included, but after a few spins of this burner, you’ll need ‘em. And what a beautiful package: gorgeous, lacquered tip-on sleeve, thick insert, well-manufactured vinyl, and a silkscreened envelope containing a hand-printed download card, which also lists some of the properties of datura seeds. Strong and uncompromising throughout, Kolovos reaches into a catalog of sounds that’s crafted intently and intensely; it’ll make your skin shed. 350 copies. (http://www.thinwrist.com)
(Doug Mosurock)
