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How
many times can you repeat the same word in a band name and
still have it sound cool? 'Three' according to UK’s Necro
Deathmort. Their debut The Beat is Necrotronic comes
packaged in the coolest layout this side of 2009.
Whoever designed this deserves kudos. I won’t get into
describing it but I will say that I love those saggy
tits and the piles of dead people. In other words,
Necro, yes. Death, why not?. Mort? Of course. That’s
good taste.
Upon staring
at the cover my first instinct was to suspect tenebrous metal
inside. Nothing morbid, just arty brutality. But no. The music
here is not totally up my alley. I don’t think I am at all
qualified to describe these types, but again, what am I
qualified to describe? Necro Deathmort is one of those strange
duos that makes electronic music that has a heavy appeal to fans
of the extreme. How do I know that? Well, I don’t but I find
this album extremely compelling.
A few facts
to get down; there is no speed here. No Atari Teenage Riot kinda
poop, nor ultra dense passages of cold intensity or danceable
industrialisms. All the percussion is in fact, pretty organic
and chillax. There are some break beats here and there, like
during “Spilth”, but these dudes don’t go crazy trying to
approach any extremes. Instead, the songs move seamlessly, all
despite a marked definition of each. That is perhaps the album’s
biggest asset. The songs run a nice gamut where guitar heavy
open landscape post-rockisms (“Hurt Me I’m Bored”) perfectly
give way to chilly ambient (“I Can See Tomorrow Through Time”)
and back to the simple two-tonality of “Return to Planet Atlas”.
For the latter, think of a guitarless and totally lethargic
Hawkwind. And sans vocals, of course. And add spookiness. Yeah,
so maybe not all that Hawkwind-like.
Other
elements are samples and occasional vocals. They are a nice
addition to “Necro Effigy” where the broken patterns of the
drums and the electricity above are only made more hectic by
that lone piece of humanity. In “I Fought the Law” Necro
Deathmort sound like Air without the sweet and the corn, but
that may just be because I am no expert in the field. The track
is a gorgeous piece of eerie space debris. All nicely tied in by
a nearly whimsical morbidity. Nice work. I don’t know what I am
listening to but this album is easy to feel.
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