Artist: The Skull Defekts
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Last night's Sirius Blog Radio playlist:
01. Superfamily - The radio has expressed concerns about what you did last night
02. TALK 1
03. Asha Ali - These months
04. Boys of Scandinavia - Why do you love me? (radio edit)
05. Promoe - Headache
06. TALK 2
07. Closer - Sensing the wake
08. The Bear Quartet - Mom and dad
09. TALK 3
10. Kristofer Åström - Just a little insane
11. Familjen - Kom säger dom
12. Pavan - The bird
13. TALK 4
14. Kazakstan - Song to the past
15. Universal Poplab - Vampire in you
16. TALK 5
17. Scraps of Tape - Death as it should be
18. ARM - Drving by accident
19. The Idealist - The knives are my eyes
20. TALK 6
21. Tsukimono - Gathering heavy breathing
22. Pimentola - Wish upon a fallen star
23. Plain Fade - Uliaan leski
24. TALK 7
25. The Skull Defekts - Six six for eyes
26. Logh - Into the night
27. TALK 8
28. Aerial - You will all die, all things will
29. Tobias Hellkvist - Moment at ven
30. Audrey - Views
31. TALK 9
32. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Ashen like the sky
I got a few copies of the new album "Skkulls" from all-star noise collective The Skull Defekts over the weekend and it's a monster. Truthfully, it's quite a bit more subdued than the live document "Open the gates of Mimer", but aural brutality is still their main calling-card. As the text under the CD states, "The extra K is feedbacking your skkull / Beware / Explode". They aren't fooling around. However, if you're expecting Masonna or Merzbow-level cacophony, you'll probably be disappointed as this record is far more minimalist and controlled. Group improv still factors as a huge part of their sound, but the pure electronic origins of the recording gives the music an icy coldness that separates it from their other work. Opening track "Sex fractures" is a good introduction - there's a recurring, two-note rhythmic theme that holds it together. As the title suggests, the piece is fractured and the sound cuts in and out, threatening to fall apart at any moment. It spits and crackles and hums. The band tends toward droning ambience elsewhere on the record, but I really enjoy the way they use interspersed silence here. Very recommended.
The Skull Defekts - Sex fracture
Musique Machine on Scandinavian all-star noise collective The Skull Defekts and their latest release "Skkull": http://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_template.php?id=1187
I should be getting a few copies of this in the mailorder soon. Also look for the new album "Blood spirits & drums are singing" to be released on June 14 via Conspiracy Records.
Download an mp3 of Swedish noiseniks The Skull Defekts performing live at Tate Gallery on January 5, 2007: http://www.dexterbentley.com/audio/hellogoodbye/SkullDefekts.mp3
Release the Bats! have posted a mammoth news update: http://www.releasethebats.com/rtb.html
Highlights include a new, super-limited cassette from Leafes, a new electronic record from noise-terrorists The Skull Defekts, new Tar... Feathers material and a 7" series.
Looks like Daniel Fagerstroem (ex-Trapdoor Fucking Exit, Chronic Heist, The Je Ne Sais Quoi) has been made a member of Swedish all-star noise collective The Skull Defekts.
Now that the physical copies of The Skull Defekts album "Rotating feedback & save the skulls" (Ideal Recordings/AA) is sold out, it's being offered up as a free download: http://www.nosordo.com/downloads.htm
The Skull Defekts seem to have one goal in mind: pound you into submission in one never ending blow. Honestly, this is amazingly efficient in doing so. In a sort of drone that is very minimalist but at the same time uses mostly analog instruments and very little electronics, they sound like a softer, more contemplative Sunn 0))) and a more active Pulse Emitter, but just as disturbing. Very interesting stuff, but not exactly the type of thing you want to be listening at work, believe me.
- Simon Thibaudeau
Hey old-timers! CDs now in stock for The End Will Be Kicks, Aerial, QMGR and The Skull Defekts. You want your music on a slab of plastic, I got it.
"Open the gates of Mimer", the latest from noise collective The Skull Defekts, is now available as a paid download: [click here]
CDs in stock soon.
In semi-related Rylander news, his other project The Skull Defekts will be doing a split LP with US noise act Wolf Eyes in March through the label Fang Bomb.
The performance by noise artists The Skull Defekts and Lasse Marhaug at this year's Norberg Festival at the end of July will be recorded for a CD release later this year via Aa Records. More info about the show here: http://www.norbergfestival.com/
The Skull Defekts