PRURIENT

"The Black Post Society"

Cold Spring - 2008

CD

Prurient is establishing his name among the most prominent characters of the American power-electronics / noise scene. Active since more than ten years, Dominick Fernow has produced an impressive amount of releases in the most different formats, much like many of the fellow ear-shatters from the US. Differently from the majority of them, however, he's been able to forge a distinctive style and sound trademark, as well as maintaining a high standard of quality in his outputs. "The Black Post Society" comes now via Cold Spring and represents one of Prurient's most exquisite catalogue of sonic havoc. Inexorable assaults like "Domina Milking" or "Specter Of A Child" fit into the power-electronics tradition, but the subtle epic melodic element lost inside the wall of distortion is something you don't notice very often in the amount of 12 copies-limited one-sided tapes released everyday, much less the outstanding atmospheric moments of the sad "Forever Hate" or the disturbing "Rose Comet".

If you're fed up with power-electronics and noise in general, give this Prurient CD a try, and you'll quite certainly agree that, when there's style and inventiveness, even an overcrowded and saturated genre can easily sound exciting and interesting again. Recommended.

- Simon V.

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