Simon Pomery makes an emphatic return to Diagonal with the Taiko fire of ‘Chicks’, the brutal percussive workout of Badgering’ and a hardcore remix from Helm. On this long-gestated follow-up to 2013’s eponymous EP, the Blood Music project continues to rage, syncing Taiko-inspired drumming patterns with vicious metal guitar dissonance and contact mic haptics. ‘Chicks’ runs at an over-stepping, febrile EBM heart rate, pelting modular palpitations made alongside Russell Haswell against walls of guitar feedback-as-melody, coming up like an oikish Keiji Haino having illicit craic with his axe. Although this is leather and denim, steel and cocaine — late ‘80s Belgian muscle-tech meets Swans with contact mics — the track retains a sense of humour: according to Pomery, it’s about little, fluffy baby chicks. Hmmm. The shorter drone piece ‘Sharking’ sees Pomery forging an underwater world from junk and the rabid tones of a homemade contact mic on a drum. In ‘Badgering’, he reengages the ‘floor by improvising squabbling electronics around a rowdy drum tattoo and bugged out vocal glitch. Corrupted memories of Endless-era Pan Sonic and strobing Bunker acid parties regress the listener/dancer into a dazed, primitive state — bruxist ecstasy enshrined in blood around the mouth. For the remix, Luke Younger (Helm) reimagines the techno cravings of the original, using electro-acoustic phasing to bring forward the original Taiko inspiration, and close off proceedings in devastating fashion.
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Simon Pomery makes an emphatic return to Diagonal with the Taiko fire of ‘Chicks’, the brutal percussive workout of Badgering’ and a hardcore remix from Helm. On this long-gestated follow-up to 2013’s eponymous EP, the Blood Music project continues to rage, syncing Taiko-inspired drumming patterns with vicious metal guitar dissonance and contact mic haptics. ‘Chicks’ runs at an over-stepping, febrile EBM heart rate, pelting modular palpitations made alongside Russell Haswell against walls of guitar feedback-as-melody, coming up like an oikish Keiji Haino having illicit craic with his axe. Although this is leather and denim, steel and cocaine — late ‘80s Belgian muscle-tech meets Swans with contact mics — the track retains a sense of humour: according to Pomery, it’s about little, fluffy baby chicks. Hmmm. The shorter drone piece ‘Sharking’ sees Pomery forging an underwater world from junk and the rabid tones of a homemade contact mic on a drum. In ‘Badgering’, he reengages the ‘floor by improvising squabbling electronics around a rowdy drum tattoo and bugged out vocal glitch. Corrupted memories of Endless-era Pan Sonic and strobing Bunker acid parties regress the listener/dancer into a dazed, primitive state — bruxist ecstasy enshrined in blood around the mouth. For the remix, Luke Younger (Helm) reimagines the techno cravings of the original, using electro-acoustic phasing to bring forward the original Taiko inspiration, and close off proceedings in devastating fashion.
Simon Pomery makes an emphatic return to Diagonal with the Taiko fire of ‘Chicks’, the brutal percussive workout of Badgering’ and a hardcore remix from Helm. On this long-gestated follow-up to 2013’s eponymous EP, the Blood Music project continues to rage, syncing Taiko-inspired drumming patterns with vicious metal guitar dissonance and contact mic haptics. ‘Chicks’ runs at an over-stepping, febrile EBM heart rate, pelting modular palpitations made alongside Russell Haswell against walls of guitar feedback-as-melody, coming up like an oikish Keiji Haino having illicit craic with his axe. Although this is leather and denim, steel and cocaine — late ‘80s Belgian muscle-tech meets Swans with contact mics — the track retains a sense of humour: according to Pomery, it’s about little, fluffy baby chicks. Hmmm. The shorter drone piece ‘Sharking’ sees Pomery forging an underwater world from junk and the rabid tones of a homemade contact mic on a drum. In ‘Badgering’, he reengages the ‘floor by improvising squabbling electronics around a rowdy drum tattoo and bugged out vocal glitch. Corrupted memories of Endless-era Pan Sonic and strobing Bunker acid parties regress the listener/dancer into a dazed, primitive state — bruxist ecstasy enshrined in blood around the mouth. For the remix, Luke Younger (Helm) reimagines the techno cravings of the original, using electro-acoustic phasing to bring forward the original Taiko inspiration, and close off proceedings in devastating fashion.
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Simon Pomery makes an emphatic return to Diagonal with the Taiko fire of ‘Chicks’, the brutal percussive workout of Badgering’ and a hardcore remix from Helm. On this long-gestated follow-up to 2013’s eponymous EP, the Blood Music project continues to rage, syncing Taiko-inspired drumming patterns with vicious metal guitar dissonance and contact mic haptics. ‘Chicks’ runs at an over-stepping, febrile EBM heart rate, pelting modular palpitations made alongside Russell Haswell against walls of guitar feedback-as-melody, coming up like an oikish Keiji Haino having illicit craic with his axe. Although this is leather and denim, steel and cocaine — late ‘80s Belgian muscle-tech meets Swans with contact mics — the track retains a sense of humour: according to Pomery, it’s about little, fluffy baby chicks. Hmmm. The shorter drone piece ‘Sharking’ sees Pomery forging an underwater world from junk and the rabid tones of a homemade contact mic on a drum. In ‘Badgering’, he reengages the ‘floor by improvising squabbling electronics around a rowdy drum tattoo and bugged out vocal glitch. Corrupted memories of Endless-era Pan Sonic and strobing Bunker acid parties regress the listener/dancer into a dazed, primitive state — bruxist ecstasy enshrined in blood around the mouth. For the remix, Luke Younger (Helm) reimagines the techno cravings of the original, using electro-acoustic phasing to bring forward the original Taiko inspiration, and close off proceedings in devastating fashion.