A pre release review!
A while ago a young lady posted a couple of tracks of this British noise project in Haus Arafna related Facebook groups over a period of time. Especially the first tracks were pretty mindblowing wall-of-sound type noise with aggressive vocals. I shared the tracks on the Tesco Facebook page and like to think that this helped to get Ausströmen on the Projekt Neue Ordnung II compilation.
Last week Ausströmen put the forthcoming debut album on Soundcloud. The debut will be a self-released cdr available in a limited edition of 50 copies from April 20th.
Where the first tracks that I heard were (as I said) wall-of-sound type noise, later tracks were less extreme and more rhythmical and industrial in approach. On putting on “Immobilise” the album seems to have that ‘new approach’. If you know the contribution to the said compilation (it is available on the album too) you have a good idea of the style of a large part of this album.
The tracks vary from descent to very good, sometimes relatively tranquil, sometimes harsher, but always fairly dark and usually with vocals. These vocals are not always the distorted and screamed vocals common to this type of music, but also talking and something that is closer to singing. As the album continues, the sound gets even more noisy and even though the selling line says that all tracks “were recorded around the same time as the well-received “Pornography Of Violence” track” I have the idea that my first encounters are to be found at the end of the album.
“Immobilise” lasts for about three quarters of an hour. Most tracks are good to great, three are less convincing to me. If you want to get a copy of the debut of this promising debut, be quick.
Links: Ausströmen / Faktion
