SHIVERS s/t LP Cronenbergian ambient deathjazz Machinefabriek john carpenter NEW
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Mar 27, 2016
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SHIVERS self-titled LP
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Available on digipack CD (limited to five hundred copies) and LP with digital download.
An interesting debut from this new trio, featuring Dutch experimental musician Rutger Zuydervelt of Machinefabriek fame; joined by members Gareth Davis and Leo Fabriek and taking their name from Canadian director David Cronenberg's classic 1975 film of sexual parasitism Shivers, Zuydervelt creates a dark dreamtime of digital paranoia and mutating flesh with this six-song album, the sounds and imagery heavily influenced by the visions of clinical creepiness and venereal horror found in of Cronenberg's classic oeuvre. When the album opens, the group blends the darkest of free-jazz with distorted, doom-laden electronica that initially slips into an abyssal blackness so immense that it's almost as if you're hearing some strange electronica version of Japanese doom gods Corrupted,; as "Ash" moves through a sprawling, crepuscular dark ambient dronescape that stretches all the way to the horizon, the group laces the darkness with the chortling sounds of Davis's bass clarinet, blowing slow bursts of moody notes across the rumbling, hiss-streaked landscape, the sound punctuated by Leo Fabriek's mixture of softly expressive cymbal work and sudden eruptions of bone-rattling slow-motion clatter. But that proves to be only one aspect of Shivers' sound; on the following track "Otomo", the group gets more aggressive as the clarinet contorts into crazed blurts of sound, hitting some abrasive upper register runs while the skittering percussion and chaotic electronic bass engage in an energetic freak-out beneath swells of uneasy electronic noise, like a darker, more noise-damaged Last Exit working their way through an abstract horror score. Other songs like "Rabid" transform into gorgeous pieces of hazy, dystopian drone-jazz, or move into passages of stunning Carpenter-esque synthesizer creep like "Brood", which injects its vintage early 80s style synth score sound with abstract electronic melodies and gusts of granular noise.
Throughout the album, Zuydervelt employs some of the production fuckery and textural experimentation that his work with Machinefabriek is known for, the recording occasionally dropping out as the instruments are suddenly muffled beneath what could be field recordings of nocturnal urban activity, or explodes into static-drenched distortion, the band's brooding free-jazz becoming massively blown out and overswept with speaker-wrecking skree. The closer "Replicant" even encroaches on dubstep territory, its stuttered, blown-out rhythm moving through a fog of hallucinatory sound, building in menace and intensity as those brooding, noir-esque clarinets slowly ascend over the increasingly distorted soundscape that finally breaks down into pure digital carnage at the finale. For all of its disturbing influences, Shivers can create some weirdly pretty material as well, such as where the mesmeric drum loop action rattles the muffled bathysphere ambience and dreamlike jazziness of "Spacek". While I admittedly would have loved to hear even more of that vast Bohren-esque doom-jazz sound they explored on the opening song, I really dug the moody experimentation of Shivers' debut, and gotta say that it made for great listening while reading Cronenbergs's debut novel Consumed that just came out... © CRUCIAL BLAST
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