Preferred yet not restricted to 3″ CDs, this is a 5″ CDr, also known as a normal one. Although that’s just the format, there is nothing normal regarding the content. But I’ll get to that in a bit. First of all, who is this Moraine? I don’t know. He/she/they/it has a couple of other projects too (Her Menacing Pet & Thrill Behind Barks), and I think the name we’re looking for is Jason Herrboldt as the man to ‘blame’, but maybe it’s Saint Nick. Who knows. Moraine has two releases on Bandcamp, “Upon Thy Cattle” and “Upon Thy Horses”. As you can see, there is a link between all mentioned animals (pet, barks -> dog, cattle and horses), making me wonder what Moraine means. Wiki is your friend.
The word “murrain” (like an archaic use of the word “distemper”) is an antiquated term covering various infectious diseases affecting cattle and sheep. It originates from Middle English moraine or more, parallel to Late Latin marina (“plague”), a probable derivative of Latin mori (“to die”).
We continue with my earlier remark about the content not being typical. Fifty-five minutes divided into nine tracks, and it’s hell on earth. There is so much happening in all different aspects of music. The only thing missing is some proper danceability. There are moments of intense noise, heavily manipulated field recordings straight out of an abattoir (or so it seems), feedback excursions, creepy atmospheres, corpses breathing … If there ever was a soundtrack for a horror movie, you could listen too. This would be that soundtrack where it wasn’t needed to see the film to know what it was all about. So, let’s treat it as such. The nine movies which you can’t look at have fitting titles like “Skull Rack”, “Venom Cult”, “2 Spades, 1 Grave”, and “The 13th Cabin”.
Maybe not all synthesised sounds are as original as I would have wanted (triggered by, for example, the generous amounts of reverb), but that doesn’t matter in this release. The generated atmospheres make up for it, which is a welcome addition to any horror fanatic’s collection.
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