Moss/Wolfmangler - Protected by the Ejaculation of Wolves
March 21 2008 at 01:14:47 AM
The three dents that make up England’s Moss donate two sprawling tracks that are positively dance floor friendly compared to their full length, Chthonic Rites. Trademark nebulousness is lightly treaded; these pieces waste little time pumping blood and fleshing out face. Drums, guitar and gargled vocals waltz as one instead of splattering over a meadow as so many hundreds of gallons of flat black paint jettisoned from a bomber’s deep wide belly. “Abortion Clinic” does fall out towards the mid mark, but the preternatural chill achieved by the full-length is on holiday. Wolfmangler, the logical result of Polish degenerate D Smolken’s cold hard coupling with wood and strings, is fine and fucking dandy, as a transliteration of Hank Williams, Jr.’s “Country Boy can Survive” breathes a new black breath. Violin, double and electric bass set the table, an onyx slab covered with candle wax and cerebrospinal fluid. Vocals creep from their holes and scatter around the blubbery bass figures like starving vermin, filthy grey manes wound tightly around their ribcages. Bass bodies buzz and crackle as dry brown conifers held captive by drought. Smolken’s voice slinks in and out of the drowsy din, often allowing for moments of reflective beauty. For such massive and hearty sounds, there is a depressing fragility that hangs over their ponderous hem and haws—the pelt of a diseased deer, its skin bruised; fur clumped willy nilly in bug eaten patches. While not wholly representative of Moss’ potency, this disc is an able introduction for the aforementioned, and a small triumph for Smolken’s Wolfmangler.
[Stewart Voegtlin]
Moss/Wolfmangler
Protected by the Ejaculation of Wolves
2006
Aurora Borealis
http://www.aurora-b.com
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