INLET TERROR – IT CAME FROM THE SHORE

CDr, http://www.loveearthmusic.com/

‘Inlet Terror was a noise collective from the shore’ can be read on the page where this album was released last year. With the label them being Mechanical Presence Records from New Jersey, ‘the shore’ is probably Jersey Shore, proving how active the noise scene on the east coast is and how it keeps evolving.

Here are eight untitled tracks by Kevin Henson, K. Geiger and Luk Henderiks. American-style harsh noise is how we hear more often from Love Earth Music (by the way: what an incredible output that label has). A total playing time of a little under an hour with track times between 2 and 12 minutes. Musicwise, it sounds like some proper pedalboard and mixer abuse with a few loopers for generating more throbbing repetitive or droney layers. Vocals on #3 and probably on a few other tracks too. But: That’s all just a guess.

But yes, you read it correctly: This is a re-release from last year and with all the re-releases we had the previous few weeks, I couldn’t help thinking, ‘Is this album *that* good that it needs a second run after just one year’? And exactly, that is a question I can’t answer. You have to listen and decide for yourself. My favourite track, however, is #7 because of the creepy foghorn, the combination of the massive background, and the subtle analogue-sounding layer in the front of the mix.

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