Nurse with Wound - Thunder Perfect Mind
I've heard the name, but otherwise I have no idea who these dudes are or what they play. Here goes...
1. "Cold" 23:37: More long-as-**** songs. Goody. So it that supposed to sound like a train or something? Oh, here we go I guess. Repetitive something or other.
Is this industrial? I don't listen to enough of it to be able to recognize it by myself. The genre is just too varied for easy categorization.
Just a looped beat, too fast and relentless to be anything resembling dance music, and those other noises are just creepy: what sounds like a heart monitor going into cardiac arrest, other stuff that I'm forgetting, screechy... screechiness. I am intrigued.
It's like each different sound by itself is minimalist, but thrown together they're occasionally just dissonant. I feel like this is what Suicide would have sounded like if they'd been around when the technology had progressed to a point where they could do more than just loop simple synths. Or what Throbbing Gristle would sound like if they decided to be Suicide.
Random dog bark!
The way that beat is now pulsing in one ear and then the other feels like it would throw off my equilibrium if I were trying to walk. Very cool.
And now it has this mechanical rhythm, along with the kind of power tools on sheet metal sound that I associate with Einsturzende Neubauten (just spelled that without any help!). Again, very cool.
I've just been letting the song play out while engaging in a rousing bout of Solitaire, but before the song ends, I'd just like to dig on the mechanical weirdness of this entire song. It's played the same beat for much of its length, and it's made the whole thing feel cohesive, so that all the bizarre sound deviations didn't come off as random and tedious.
Not all of the song has this beat, and when it changes track, it's refreshing, keeping the track from becoming monotonous, even if it's in many ways minimalist. Nice.
2. "Colder Still" 32:45: That tuba blast, or whatever sound is masquerading as a tuba's evil cousin, at the beginning was just malevolent. I'm guessing this is going to be a bit more malevolent than the previous track. The ambient... feedback(?), and background laughing is reminding me of a more busy Lustmord, which is, again, cool.
This **** sounds like it would be awesome while reading "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream". For some reason that's one of my barometers for creepy ambient music.
WTF? It's all quiet and ****, but there's this really ugly, loud group of effects going on that sound like an alien predator eating its prey alive. The tuba(?) blare right at the end is what I assume to be the killing blow. Bitchin'.
Spoken word? It's too Irish and ****ed up sounding to make out what the two voices are saying, but it's pretty creepy sounding. Wouldn't want to listen to on acid.
Only a few more minutes left in the track, but I haven't had much else to say about it. How long can I go on about a thirty minute song anyways? It's been some pretty righteous dark ambient(?), with some weird twists and turns to keep it from being
just ambient, and... yeah. See you at the other side of the end.
3. "Cold (Miss Ticker Mix)" 6:05: I was going to skip reviewing the bonus track, and just listen to it as I was summing up the rest, but it's sounding too cool to ignore. It's sounds many of the busiest, most aggressive moments of the album compressed over that hateful, nihilistic beat from the first song. It's pretty relentless, and I'd like to murder someone in a serial killer-like fashion while listening to it. You've been warned.
Alright, and we're done. I honestly don't listen to enough industrial or ambient to be able to say I'll be putting this on regular rotation, and I'd have to be in different moods for either track, as they're so different from each other, but if I'm ever in the mood, then this is going to be a top choice, and I'll probably check some of this dude's other **** out at some point as well.
Final verdict:
/10