download's furnace
This vancouver project combines the visionary sound artistry of skinny puppy members, phil western (tranquility bass) and mark spybey, courtesy dead voices on air. furnace has a language all it's own. i can see why some reviewers took a while to appreciate it.
there is definitely an alien complexity at work here, amidst the
rhythmic cacophony of cut~up vocal distortions and post~industrial shore line scraping. sigesang disintegrates into sheer glitch noise with crunchy guitar straight off process and some video game sounding bassline matched perfectly with sliced and diced vocals that, as an earlier reviewer noted, will rip your wallpaper off.
still, the album does have it's ambient moments. stone grey soil, attalal, and beehatch are more down~tempo, chill~out themes preluding their more "accessible" and most recent work, effector.
furnace winds it's way like an intoxicated fiery serpent thru danceable excursions and strange mezmerizing distorted poetry (what exactly does jolk mean anyway?) vocal contributions by genesis p~orridge on omni~man, lebanull, and marred are hilarious, subversive, and volatile as ever. get it, you'll come back different.
Added: Sunday, November 10, 2002 Reviewer: azrael ravencroft Score: Related Link: subconscious studios Hits: 1137 Language: eng
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