Assassun is the latest band/project of the ever busy Alexander Leonard Donat, who is also known as Vlimmer, Fir Cone Children, Verneblung Leonard Las Vegas etc.. All of which he puts out on the very cool Blackjack Illuminist Records imprint. This release is available on Cassette, CD, Download or Boxset.
The album opens with the dark brooding menace of Burial Shroud it has all sorts of weird electro noises and effects against the rhythm track and Alexanders increasingly desperate lyrics as he seems to have been wrapped in said shroud while still alive and is trying to unravel it.
Winter is a bitter twisted storm of electro weirdness with what could be a sampled and treated Zamboni, as he asks "what does he know" as the music gets loopier as if you're in the centre of the blizzard and can't find your way home, even though you know it's real close by. It also uses Winter in a similar way to Game Of Thrones.
Devours Itself seems to de-tune a funky bassline and throw it against all sorts of odd sounds as the lyrics are barked at us and we cower trying not to get devoured by the beast within.
Over Again takes a reasonably normal club beat and goth synths to make the sort of tune that needs to be heard in a cavernous room, as the claustrophobic lyrics close in, leaving you wanting to be in as open a space as you can find, to get a full release from all the pain.
Your Scheme? Feels like the oddest 80's throwback to try to cross C-C-Cat Trance with D.A.F. and an early A Certain Ratio tune or two and come up with something rather unsettling and fraught with existential danger, as everything fails, as he doesn't know what it entails to get a different result.
The World I Will Leave takes cartoon synths, otherworldly soundscapes and the words of a departing traveler off to the further reaches. Janine is a nose bleed techno meets low fi synthwave song of love, lust, despair and all points in-between for the mysterious Janine.
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Hook To The Chin has spaced out outer space strafing noises, weird glitchy interjections, with a right hook to leave you prone, wondering just what you did to upset Alexander so badly.
Achilles Tendon isn't about Gerd Muller pulling up just before he scores another one, Alexander is far to young to have him as hero, instead it's about the terror of everyday life in the 21st century and all that entails, as the synths do all sorts of odd weird things and the beat pummels at your brain and treats you with distain.
Light Coming Out of the cracks in the walls, as the distorted disjointed sounds keep peeping through at you, as you accept what fate has destined for you, personal actions no longer matter however unaccountable you may be.
The album closes with I Need It Gone, not sure what he wants gone but this feels like a mid-80's sci fi goth soundtrack to despair, as you try to wash it off and make sure your not slogging anymore, as he hopes to be rid of whatever it is, which is the opposite of what you need to do with this album as you need it in your life and on your boogie box now.
Find out more at https://blackjackilluministrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sunset-skull https://www.facebook.com/assassunband
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