Whitehorse - Untitled 2 CD
March 23 2008 at 10:02:09 AM
Despite Seldon Hunt's involvement, Oz's Whitehorse manages to shirk boring pretension or unpalatable post-rock tropes and offer two discs of Doom Metal the likes of which no one's heard since Winter walked the earth with concrete feet. I'm not one for rubbing one out over "packaging," but this shit just looks right: some sort of incomprehensible mélange of scat and mud and splintered wood in a black on black presentation with a no-frills gatefold affixed with song titles.
The music, thankfully, is just as stark, treading a fine line from the "avant" predilection that few have been able to convincingly work out, save Corrupted, Khanate, Japan's free-rock outfit, Mainliner—and to some extent, Acid Mothers Temple. Whitehorse shares some tropes with the aforementioned, but is mainly content with limping along in relentlessly linear fashion while a yawning din of pure noise threatens to consume its pathetic take on progress. Scabbed and desolate, this is the heavy shit everyone's jonesin' for these days, even if some of the content appears to be slapped together with little regard for continuity.
[Stewart Voegtlin]
Whitehorse
Untitled 2 CD
2007
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