venetian snares

Winter In The Belly of a Snake

Finally back in print!! The return of Mr Funk , displaying quite a staggering versatility and way with the digital venom. Opening track 'Dad' is excellent, the required syncopation of beats, discordant keys and tumbled out breaks is suddenly interrupted by the voice of the Snares singing, an expected dose of vitriol and sarcasm delivered in a way that's somehow frightening and moving at the same time.....think of a dark variant of Windowlicker, Confield and Tom Waits rolled into one fabulously original beast of a track for an idea. 'Gottrahmen' is more elongated : a layering of found sound sets the background to a cinematic chorus that's interlaced with industrial distortion and ambient effects that never quite manage to detract from the widescreen, eerie feel at its core. 'Cashew', meanwhile, is a masterclass of beat construction and splicing, a slow mangle of percussion flowing through bass pad progressions and a crescendo of intense breaks and choral interjections that employ metallic effects and chilling mathematical processes that just cannot fail to move and jerk. Having been universally acknowledged by pretty much everyone on the scene as the new kid on the block, the natural successor to the dominant IDM elite, it seems that Venetian Snares has once again unleashed an album varied, spannered and original enough to merit him the adulation he is set to enjoy to ever more terrifying degrees of madness in the very near future. Large.