(06.05.06) On this first opus called Chew and Swallow and issued this year on the Californian label Dielectric Records, Pussyfinger’s music is likely
to remind you of early industrial/noise bands, back in a time when this
meant innovation and experimentation and not only tough disco music.
This duo, made of Carson Day and Drucifer (a turntablist and head of
Dielectric), provides us with a juicy blend of drone, improvisation,
digital feedback, noisy electronic samples and distorted beats along
with almost unrecognizable vocals, composed without any compromise.
But you will find all these saturated organic rhythms and soundscapes
mixed and processed laptronica, though not as glitchy as said
somewhere else, but enough anyway to please those who aren’t not that
fond of purist experimental noise. The eleven tracks that make this
album will take you from harsh-electronica to ambient soundscapes
(“Trane”) through saturated beat loops reminding of heavy-electronics
(“Drunk and Disorderly”), all these originating in analogic sounds
(Mini-Moog, Roland SH-101, voice, electric guitar, electric bass,
hickok signal generator, dry ice, record samples, and field recordings
(boats, train engines, squeaky doors, etc)), then digitally processed,
cut’n’pasted and mashed up to finally give this truly weird CD. A
must-listen for the fans of electronic experimental sound who would
like to muck their ears for good.
Chew and Swallow is out now on Dielectric. (Buy it at Amazon.com)
