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Impressions
I'm sitting here, two days before
Halloween, and PrismViews Feel The Drip is coming out of my
speakers after attending a “zombie disco” party on the weekend.
This LP would have been perfect for it. It's Detroit techno by way of
disembodied disco, 13 tracks of distorted singing over ice-cold beats
(that drum machine must have ice breaking off it with every clack).
Some of these vocals sound like desperate cries in the night, the
kind you'd hear coming from the darkness of an alley late at night or
you imagine come from a graveyard on a full moon (“Fearlust”
especially). The band uses 'witchhouse' as a descriptive, and I was
ready to write them off as crazy. The lyrics might be a bit
creepy/cheesy, but where's the deep bass and in your face synth? It's
there, but not in the same ham-fisted combo most witch house blasts
across every song. As the soundtrack to a visual installation these
tracks make a lot of sense, at least to me. I can picture all kinds
of crazy video and performance pieces being engulfed by Feel the
Drip. On their own they though, the songs do lack some punch that a
performance would provide. The middle third or so of the album
(“Memory Loss – Wizard”, “Levitation”) definitely sounds
like a chunk of the music has been excised so as to not overwhelm
some unseen and unheard party to the proceedings. “Synthetic” and
“Gold Velvet” have 'video collage' written all over them. If one
doesn't mind the shift in sound those songs take, and admittedly
they're a decent respite from constant bass throb, Feel the Drip might just be your techno disco treat. Halloween and performance art
not required.
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