Devastations: Coal

devastationsCoal sounds like Nick Cave at his adult contemporary worst, only without the mystique, the amazing storytelling, boiling emotion and genuine macabre which haunts even his worst work.The result is strange. It seems as though it would be unlikely, even difficult, for a band who attempts to emulate a sort of post-gothic sentimental sexiness to end up sounding like Barenaked Ladies, but that is just what has happened. The album is derivative in all the wrong ways, melodramatic without tact, fashioned without style, and lacks any kind of grace or redeeming creativity. Most embarrassingly, Devastations' attempt to be dark and provocative falls harrowingly flat, making this, for fans of Scott Walker, Nick Cave, Angels of Light, Swans, or even Leonard Cohen's later material, an unbearably mediocre listen. :: Devastations: Coal - Beggars Banquet/Indigo

ck 16 Dec 06

MOUTHUS

Best of the recent Our Mouth stuff is the first Sullivan solo CD-R. Sullivan's comes under the name Eskimo King, and /Tooth-Shaped Migration/ is five thick, detailed chunks of sound spread over a quick 17 minutes. What I dig most about Sullivan is his wide-open outlook on what sounds are worth making. Mouthus may concoct a lot of deep, textured noise, but they also use acoustic guitar loops, dirgey metal-like stomps, polyrhtyhmic meditations, busted rock riffs, and tons more. (noiseweek.blogspot.com)

„Nein, nein, kein Soundtrack! Wir kombinieren nur die Stücke auf unseren Alben - wir schneiden erstmal alles auf Band mit, um dann, vielleicht Monate später, zu sagen: Oh, das hier passt ja thematisch zu diesem Stück und auch zu jenem. Oder: Dieses Stück würden zu jenen Anderen passen, wäre es nicht so grottenschlecht. Also: Trash it.” Brian Sullivan/HE Interview

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Devastations: Coal

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