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Review: 'Liberez'
'All Tense Now Lax'   

-  Album: 'All Tense Now Lax' -  Label: 'Night School Records'
-  Genre: 'Industrial' -  Release Date: '24th July 2015'

Our Rating:
Talk about creepy… it begins with creeping nightmarish fear chords which taper into rumbling atmospherics, interspersed with distant, dissonant extraneous noise. It swells to a scream of abrasion that’s truly frightening. I can feel my jaw tightening, my teeth clench, and within a couple of minutes I’m tense. The dreamy vocals may be soothing in another context, but their detachment, in the context of this maelstrom of noise, is only more unsettling.

Hints of Cranes and Pain Teens collide with the melting brutal squall of Whitehouse or Prurient as violins forge a violent squall of howling feedback. Disjointed rhythms and judicious application of extreme stereo serve to nag at the senses in the most uncomfortable of ways. Exotica and industrial collide in a bewildering fusion that feels like a direct application of William Burroughs’ cut-up technique directly to the mind.

The title track drifts and thrums in a haze that envelops the psyche while slowly edging needles into its very essence as it swirls to haunting crescendo, before ‘Grease the Axels’ whips up a thunderous frenzy of twisted world folk.

Tantalisingly, it works its way into the mind’s deepest recesses and transports the listener somewhere far inside themselves. Uncomfortable, and at times unsettling, All Tense Now Lax’ is an album that goes beyond mere music, and has the capacity to affect psychological and physical equilibria. Powerful.

Liberez Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Liberez - All Tense Now Lax