Thursday, October 1, 2009

Boar : year of the bison

















Dubuque
Iowa's Boar aka alex nowacki's
third release on felt cat records,
the
biggest longest and most concise release to date,
alex added a second member earlier this year
patirck G, the new two man noise spazzout sounds
bigger than ever,

the album has a more industrial feel then
the older lo
fi efforts from mr nowacki,
there are still blankets of harsh static
feedback, but underneath is a repeating
hum of melody, a spooky synthesizer
pulse
below the first level
of noise,
a melodic cacophony
,

track three has some nice mixer feedback and
screamed vocal mash ups
, plus lots of that
heavy static and more melodic
backdrops from outer space,

track four is a electronic
nervous wreck
almost danceable in its lo
fi stress loop,
it repeats for a while and leads into
more mixer squeals,

track five takes a more peaceful
turn
with an echoing keyboard resonance,
and more feed back,

the album ends with more bison noises
and the sounds of water or rain sloshing
around
under the bison's
feet maybe,

this seems to be a bit of a differant

direction for the Iowa wonder,
i have enjoyed all his other releases
and i enjoy this one as well,
weather or not this direction is
better that the last, it does sound bigger
and clearer
than ever before, and that can only bring more attention
to an already great project,