Licht
**Mighty side of electro-acoustic guitar doom featuring Peter Rehberg and housed in jacket designed by Stephen O'Malley** Blackest Ever Black's deep furrow of new releases in 2013 hits a huge rock in the soil courtesy of Viennese trio Shampoo Boy's fearsome 'Licht'. Combining the uncompromising talents of Peterlicker's Christian Schachinger and Peter Rehberg (Pita, boss of Editions Mego) with Christina Nemec (Chra/SV Damenkraft), 'Licht' manifests an excoriating blend of nerve-shredding noise and choking doom atmosphere evoking the intensity of Rehberg's aktions in KTL with Stephen O'Malley, or the gut-wrenching dynamics of Keiji Haino's trios with O'Rourke and Ambarchi or Pan Sonic when they drop the vocals and go quids-in for the most visceral, atonal guitar noise and electronics. Yet, there's also a sense of discipline, or dare we say Viennese manners which come into play across all four tracks, holding it back from freeform freakout or balls-out catharsis: behind the terrifying screech and cloud-of-flailing-knives distortion lie eloquent chord changes and gloaming harmonics. In 'Gift' the incessant hi-end peal is balanced with a bassline that could almost be from an early ambient AFX, and the chiming shimmer of 'Still' recalls a most reserved Fennesz or even Loren Norell's gamelan transformations. It's probably fair to say that this is one of Blackest Ever Black's most impressive releases to date, and if you know what that means…
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**Mighty side of electro-acoustic guitar doom featuring Peter Rehberg and housed in jacket designed by Stephen O'Malley** Blackest Ever Black's deep furrow of new releases in 2013 hits a huge rock in the soil courtesy of Viennese trio Shampoo Boy's fearsome 'Licht'. Combining the uncompromising talents of Peterlicker's Christian Schachinger and Peter Rehberg (Pita, boss of Editions Mego) with Christina Nemec (Chra/SV Damenkraft), 'Licht' manifests an excoriating blend of nerve-shredding noise and choking doom atmosphere evoking the intensity of Rehberg's aktions in KTL with Stephen O'Malley, or the gut-wrenching dynamics of Keiji Haino's trios with O'Rourke and Ambarchi or Pan Sonic when they drop the vocals and go quids-in for the most visceral, atonal guitar noise and electronics. Yet, there's also a sense of discipline, or dare we say Viennese manners which come into play across all four tracks, holding it back from freeform freakout or balls-out catharsis: behind the terrifying screech and cloud-of-flailing-knives distortion lie eloquent chord changes and gloaming harmonics. In 'Gift' the incessant hi-end peal is balanced with a bassline that could almost be from an early ambient AFX, and the chiming shimmer of 'Still' recalls a most reserved Fennesz or even Loren Norell's gamelan transformations. It's probably fair to say that this is one of Blackest Ever Black's most impressive releases to date, and if you know what that means…
**Mighty side of electro-acoustic guitar doom featuring Peter Rehberg and housed in jacket designed by Stephen O'Malley** Blackest Ever Black's deep furrow of new releases in 2013 hits a huge rock in the soil courtesy of Viennese trio Shampoo Boy's fearsome 'Licht'. Combining the uncompromising talents of Peterlicker's Christian Schachinger and Peter Rehberg (Pita, boss of Editions Mego) with Christina Nemec (Chra/SV Damenkraft), 'Licht' manifests an excoriating blend of nerve-shredding noise and choking doom atmosphere evoking the intensity of Rehberg's aktions in KTL with Stephen O'Malley, or the gut-wrenching dynamics of Keiji Haino's trios with O'Rourke and Ambarchi or Pan Sonic when they drop the vocals and go quids-in for the most visceral, atonal guitar noise and electronics. Yet, there's also a sense of discipline, or dare we say Viennese manners which come into play across all four tracks, holding it back from freeform freakout or balls-out catharsis: behind the terrifying screech and cloud-of-flailing-knives distortion lie eloquent chord changes and gloaming harmonics. In 'Gift' the incessant hi-end peal is balanced with a bassline that could almost be from an early ambient AFX, and the chiming shimmer of 'Still' recalls a most reserved Fennesz or even Loren Norell's gamelan transformations. It's probably fair to say that this is one of Blackest Ever Black's most impressive releases to date, and if you know what that means…
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**Mighty side of electro-acoustic guitar doom featuring Peter Rehberg and housed in jacket designed by Stephen O'Malley** Blackest Ever Black's deep furrow of new releases in 2013 hits a huge rock in the soil courtesy of Viennese trio Shampoo Boy's fearsome 'Licht'. Combining the uncompromising talents of Peterlicker's Christian Schachinger and Peter Rehberg (Pita, boss of Editions Mego) with Christina Nemec (Chra/SV Damenkraft), 'Licht' manifests an excoriating blend of nerve-shredding noise and choking doom atmosphere evoking the intensity of Rehberg's aktions in KTL with Stephen O'Malley, or the gut-wrenching dynamics of Keiji Haino's trios with O'Rourke and Ambarchi or Pan Sonic when they drop the vocals and go quids-in for the most visceral, atonal guitar noise and electronics. Yet, there's also a sense of discipline, or dare we say Viennese manners which come into play across all four tracks, holding it back from freeform freakout or balls-out catharsis: behind the terrifying screech and cloud-of-flailing-knives distortion lie eloquent chord changes and gloaming harmonics. In 'Gift' the incessant hi-end peal is balanced with a bassline that could almost be from an early ambient AFX, and the chiming shimmer of 'Still' recalls a most reserved Fennesz or even Loren Norell's gamelan transformations. It's probably fair to say that this is one of Blackest Ever Black's most impressive releases to date, and if you know what that means…