MAGICAL – THE GIFT OF TODAY

CDr, http://www.loveearthmusic.com/

A somewhat ‘mellow’ (sorry for not being able to find a better word) cover with water paintings of fields with flowers. It holds the midst between pointillism and impressionism and the paintings are by Magical. And the contrast between the paintings and the music couldn’t be any more significant. In under 17 minutes, eleven tracks are force-fed to you like crazy: Ultra high-speed synthetic drums with layers of noise and vocals either extremely aggressive and distorted or eerie like when in a horror flic the evil guy sings the babies to sleep … Uncomfortable, that’s the proper word that fits the “Sleeping” track.

Some rhythms seem recurrent/reused, but I can be wrong. I probably am because it goes so damn fast that you can only find out with a sound program and then compare sound waves. I don’t know what this is … “Far” is now playing, and the 42 seconds are messing with my mind. I want to replay it to find out what I’ve heard.

This is a noise variant of grindcore, I suppose. But “Four Years” is almost like a drone, so what does it make that … A grind drone? Drone core?

My tip is to listen to the podcast this week. We will include the final track of this album, which is the only track above 3 minutes. Because, in general, the podcast each week features 3 minutes per artist or reviewed album. “New Beginnings” has loads of erratic drum patterns, sudden noises of unknown origin, probably the use of vocals which are well disguised and a filthy layer of phased noise. If you like it, the best is to point your browsers to the website of Love Earth Music and place an order there. Feel free to look for other nice releases to get to. The label deserves it for experimenting with releasing stuff like this.