Album Review
Thoabath – “4. KK.42H. 4” – [Madriguera]
Lord Gravestench 11/11/2018 A Library, Cassette
Andy Christian Way is a former member of Sutekh Hexen who also plays with French Radio and Maleficia, among other projects. Thoabath would be his Death Industrial unit, active since 2015 or thereabouts. The project is all about primal rhythms and desolate, hopeless atmosphere. This 2017 cassette comes to us on Madriguera Records of Puerto Rico, where Way resided for a time prior to the hurricane. This will be comfy next to KFJC’s (or my) collection of releases from MZ.412, Theologian, and Dissecting Table. Bilious, decay-obsessed electronics with a riveting sense of tension. Side A= Beats By Dis, melting flesh, babbling demon voices. Side B= Deep, deep ambience to cleanse the palate after all the blood and sulphur of the A side; just don’t get too comfortable because the zaps are coming. This is beautiful release. The quote on the interior is from France’s obfuscatory postmodern fill-o-soffer Jean-Francois Lyotard: “All corporeal identity trembles at its finitude, and for it, distraught with humiliation as much as with suffering”–or to put it another way, “life sucks.”
you heard it 16 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 1234 days ago, Maybelline played Fold Upon Fold
- 1237 days ago, Lucky Jae played Fold Upon Fold
- 1241 days ago, Buddy Love played K. R44K
- 1254 days ago, Grawer played K. R44K
- 1258 days ago, the willy nilly auctioneer played K. R44K
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