Just a month and a half ago, I reviewed some deliciously loud output by the British Input Error Records. And here we have yet a newer batch of stuff.
We’re starting with Heat Signature and the album “Trench Trapped”. Behind Heat Signature are Brad Griggs and Luke Tandy from Ohio. This CD is everything you dreamt of if you normally dream of loud action-filled sounds that are incomprehensible, uncorrelated, in your face, heavily compressed into packages of edible noise. A sort of wickedness of what Soylent Green would be like if it were made of sound instead of people. Five tracks of which two are around 5 minutes and 3 are around 10 minutes and the result is fucked up. And I write that with the highest regards.
I’ve tried to read up on these guys a bit, and Discogs makes me think. The short description is ‘direct action harsh noise’, and I re-listened to the album after that. The sounds and structures can be best described as a live recording of two guys making noise with so much dynamics … I imagine two highly ADHD guys jumping all over the place and each. Movement is another fragment or layer in the composition. They steal each other’s mics and with the prior agreement that there would be no feedback, but that ain’t the truth. I’ve played with them in ’23 in Leiden at Crude Transmissions, and they were standing behind their gear in total control of what they do. If you think this kind of harsh noise is theatrics with contact mic’s, think again. It’s hard work to control your sound when it is THIS loud … Very well done.
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