DCLXVI - Year of the Rabbit

Now you'll hear claims that this is some of the best harsh noise to come from a craptop and, well, let's be truthful, it just might be. Just take the first slab of noise, a bit predictable in sound the first three seconds of the track introduces only to flood over in dynamics that I wasn't expecting. I bit high ended and staticy, but seemingly careful how much is let lose. Holding back and harnessing the power that is emanating from the speakers, crafted might be the word I am looking for, using the full spectrum of sound then cutting to silence and kicking back into a fairly atmospheric track. This opening track is the longest listed on the back and just continues to sway as if were trying to rub its way out of a rusting ship's haul. While the closing minute interjects an even more analog like fare to the mix ending on a harsh note just as throughout. The next track is a bit hotter with more spice and everything fucked up. With the foreground the major player and your ear playing around in the back, the circular motion that is created is quite impressive, just as it the fact the whole dam piece seems to gradually get harsher, but it is very difficult to judge as it peeks and ends. The third track is again quite airy with a dark smell that creates the images of a steel forest of trees screaming in the night wind. Very sick shit, spooky as if a straight razor is being held to the membrane of you ear drum, just waiting for you to make the slightest twitch. The next track is much of the same as the last track but with a lot more cascading and a fuck load more of high pitch flavor that will leave a metallic taste in your mouth. Track five reminds me of the first track, a few attention starters then a massive eruption of noise that swells like a wound in the hot sun. Ending in little over two minutes the next one blasts in and white washes your mind clean with smooth subtle changes in frequency and pitch, constantly moving, testing new limits and beckoning the listener to follow it even deeper. Again cutting off and starting into the next track the sound shifts to a bit more of the same as the last with a continuation type feel. Plus, if you were to look at the titles of the tracks you might be inclined to think so yourself. Finishing with a track that is a lot more on the low end at of the scale in sound and even a bit power electronic in feel. This is much different to the rest of the disk, yet no more indispensable than it as well. The sound continues to recreate it self with lots of variety in speed and use of loops. I fine piece of work especially since I haven't heard much from DCLXVI recently.

-Joe Lombardo