Artist: Burial Hex / Zola Jesus
Album: Untitled
Year: 2009
Style: Experimental, Death Industrial/Lo-fi, Ambient
Country: USA / USA
Format: mp3 AVG 195 kbps
Size: 54 Mb
Tracklist:
Burial Hex: 01 Go Crystal Tears / 02 Temple Of The Flood
Zola Jesus: 03 Julius & Ethel
total time: 38'42"
Burial Hex’s side of the record features two tracks, the first being
the relatively short ‘Go Crystal Tears’, which evidently represents
something of a new musical direction for Burial Hex. It’s much more
musically conventional, in terms of having a recognisable song structure,
in which brittle, brooding synthpop is combined with tormented black
metal-style vocals. The music here is almost darkwave, with a distinctly
80s feel to it, and I've seen John Carpenter’s horror film soundtrack
work and Dario Argento’s band Goblin specifically cited as influences.
It’s startlingly different to anything I've heard from Burial Hex
before, and it takes some getting used to, but it’s really good.
The second track, ‘Temple Of The Flood’, was recorded during the same
period as the material on Initiations, and sounds much more like what
I've come to expect from Burial Hex – fourteen minutes of incredibly
dark industrial ambient and ‘horror electronics’, an unclean army of
dirty, sinister little sounds which skitter, scrape and pulse under a
stormy sky full of booming percussion and low-end drone. It’s not too
dissimilar from what the Edinburgh band Wraiths (who’ve also been
released by Aurora Borealis) do. Elizabethan composer John Dowland
gets a credit for the lyrics. For some strange reason, John Dowland
seems to be all the rage at the moment – I've recently reviewed albums
by Damiano Mercuri and Werkraum which both used lyrics or music by Dowland.
Around the midpoint of ‘Temple Of The Flood’, the analogue electronics
give way to tribal hand-drums and church organ, a campy gothic combination
which reminds me of early Alice Cooper, specifically the track ‘Black Juju’
from the 1971 album Love It To Death. (Alice Cooper, incidentally, like
The Rolling Stones, gets totally underrated simply because he’s gone on
for about 30 years too long. If Alice had quit after, say, 1973’s Muscle
Of Love, he’d be a massive cult figure now. Things really started going
downhill when Alice Cooper stopped being a group and started being just
one guy.) The final section of the track adds some pensive piano, the
sound of dripping water, and more electronic squibs and burbles before
everything is reduced to a warm, purring wall of circuit hum and a
final blast of organ.
Zola Jesus: Real Name - Nika Roza Danilova
Russian American singer songwriter, born 11 April 1989 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
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