*Vinyl-only edition, comes with a bonus full length album/mix on CD* Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre's Jazkamer troupe are among the most respected and prolific members of the infamous Norwegian noise/metal scene. They love making a f**king good racket. During 2010 they undertook an ambitious project to release an album of new material every month for 12 months via a subscription service. 'Chestnut Thornback Tar' was originally the May edition but the fiends at Type just had to own it on vinyl, hence this wax-only pressing including a bonus mix CD reducing the series to 75 minutes of absolutely deadly and mind-bending visceral noise collisions. The album is dominated by the 20-minute molten suffusion of 'Sentimental Journey', a wading-through-mollasses sprawl of sustained tones and howling-into-the-wind white noise bearing no small debt to Dylan Carlson's Earth (it's a bit of a giveaway that Lasse wears an 'Earth 2' t-shirt on the rear sleeve image!) and conducted with an almost Zen-like attention to detail. However, the rest of the LP takes a very different shape, joined by collaborators Nils Are Dronen and Jean-Phillipe Gross to crush out another side of overdriven avant-metal dementia with splattercore drums seething under banks of petrifying noise worthy of Whitehouse at their most fearsome. Yet, the most impressive thing here is probably the CD, forcing 12 months of multi-disciplinary noises to co-exist in dissonant harmony - making for one of the most visceral and exciting mixtapes you'll hear this year. Ear-meltingly heavy sh*t, for the brave!
A1 Sentimental Journey
A2 Lament For Klaus Kinski
A3 Life As A Secret Agent Is Over
B1 Burp Boogie, Burp Boogie
B2 In The Days Of The Burning Guitar
B3 It Is The Nobel Prize I Want. It's Worth $400.000
B4 We Need A Painting, Not A Frame
B5 Yellow Mountain Fur Peak
