The performances of Dylan Nyoukis (Blood Stereo member and Chocolate Monk label CEO) come across like rinses of an infectious disease. His collaborations end up drenching the other party in a gnarled sheen of vocal mutations like a plague sweat. Fellow Brighton heads Towering Breaker attempt to keep their grip on their own noise/splutter before the maw of Nyoukis gulps them down.
Most of this record is made up of vocal muck smears and layers of slowed down drone like a soundtrack to degenerate hole-riddled sock puppet sex. There are a couple of rhythm loops grounding the freefall, both "MMM1" and "Tapes Tongue" roll and grumble along like ghost trains complete with ghostly wails. The shrieks of Nyoukis' oscillator-ribbed throat are spattered over these tracks, restless bubbles and pops that only a deranged tongue could spout.
Viscous drips of mess collide with overwhelming eyes-rolled-back shrieking fug; this is the sound of three men gorging on pig fat. There are enough other elements involved on Visions Versions to raise this release above the crunching noise deluge. Out of the oil and quivering come loops of Organ drone and liberated harmonica, no throat-based sound appears too out-there for these guys. It's not all straight-face vocal abuse though, "////" explodes like a chimp attack and a loose-nutted motor in a gale while a purloined Kids vocoder on "Murk Visions" heralds the spilling of the belly of the beast through dub vomit.
Ugly records rarely sound like this much fun.
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