LOSS OF SELF Twelve Minutes LP

LOSS OF SELF Twelve Minutes LP

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(The Flenser)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  Released on both Digisleeve CD and limited-edition 12" vinyl, the latter accompanied by a gorgeous poster insert.
   I've dug just about everything that The Flenser has out out lately, but their debut release for the Australian duo Loss Of Self is hands down my favorite of the lot. This EP of blackened, mathy shoegaze blast comes adorned in eerie surreal Slenderman album art, and from those visuals all the way down to the band's weirdly infectious, abrasive music, there's a strange otherworldly quality that drifts off of this record that is unlike anything else the label has put out. Loss Of Self first popped up with a three-song demo tape last year that apparently made a pretty big impression among fans of experimental, boundary-pushing black metal, although I never got a chance to hear it until now; fortunately, all three of those tracks have been added to the end of Twelve Minutes as bonus tracks.
   When opener "Isolt" kicks in with its pretty, jangling melody, you'd almost think that this was going to turn in to some kind of fuzzy, Dinosaur Jr / Superchunk-esque indie rock. Which it sort of does, in a way; that pretty, jangly hook that forms at the heart of this song isn't black metal in the least, an infectious, pensive melody that the band blasts through some serious fuzz, but behind that moody, poppy hook is a drummer violently prone to suddenly erupting into gales of ramshackle blast-beat drumming and slow, somewhat doom-laden tempos. The vocals are a frenzied shriek smeared across the background, a harsh panic-stricken howl that also stands in stark contrast with those super catchy guitar parts. The band keeps these songs super short, each one a focused blast of dark violent pop delivered in three minute chunks. When "Paradise Overgrown" follows, it beings with a slightly darker sound, the beginning of the song caught up in faster, more aggressive drumming and layered with more monstrous vocals and sheets of dissonant guitar, strange watery chords drifting underneath, but then they too transform into something more angular, more like some old math rock band getting jacked up on blast-beats and blackened atmospherics. The title track is the catchiest of 'em all, another poppy hook wove around a sweet, sun-dappled guitar melody, and when the drummer starts thrashing again at top speed, dropping into those crazed off-kilter blast-beats and arrhythmic grooves, everything gets caught in a cloudy swarm of both grim blackened tremolo buzz and gauzy, gorgeous 'gazer guitar. The rest of the disc follows suit, the songs laced with bursts of crazed chaotic guitar solos that turn into pure noise, sudden descents into driving, moody rock, with one track "( )" turning into a creepy abstract soundscape, delivering swells of mysterious low-fi ambience, deep throbbing drones, murky choral drift and trails of echoing eerie guitar.
   The last three songs are unlisted, but comprise the entire Loss Of Self demo, re-mastered for this release; These songs are a little heavier, a little rawer than the newer EP material, with more of a pronounced black metal feel in the faster tempos and blasting snare, and with the singer's raw shrieking vocals, but the hooks are no less infectious; "The Inheritance" kicks the demo off with a heavy, gloom-filled crawl through clouds of ringing guitar chords and eerie atmospheric drift, the bass slithering around the fuzz-drenched chords and blown-out backbeat, resembling that old shoegazey rock sound and running it through a miasma of morose moodiness, before finally exploding into a brief finale of angular, mathy blackness. The other two songs "The Mind; It’s Form and Function" and "Seidlitz" all feature some incredibly pretty and memorable melodies that also render this supremely poppy, while draping that blackened mathy pop sound around more of those harsh shrieking vocals, the swirling distortion and majestic mathiness finally giving way to a dreamy wash of blackened bliss blast at the very end.
   Essential listening for anyone into the likes of Deafheaven, Cold Body Radiation, and the newer Botanist stuff.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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