MP3: Noxagt - Nintety parallels ago
Noxagt isn't quite like the other bands on the Load Records roster. Even though the label is well-known for putting out all sorts of challenging art-rock, I usually associate their aesthetic with louder/faster duos such as Friends Forever and Lightning Bolt. Those bands are fine I suppose, but I find that they tend to get fairly tedious upon repeat listens. Noxagt however traffics in a different kind of brutality - a bass-heavy pummeling that's not so preoccupied with filling space as it is with laying down beats that make your head nod. The baritone/bass/drums instrumentation naturally accentuates the low-end and the (mostly) mid-tempo pacing of the songs gives the material room to breathe. This song I've posted today is particularly slow and dirge-like. At first it doesn't really seem like it's going anywhere, but once it opens up, it sure gets painful. It a good way, of course.
Noxagt - Nintety parallels ago