Search - Merzbow, Bastard Noise :: Split

Well, the Merzbow half's good...

Robert P. Beveridge | Cleveland, OH | 07/10/2001

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Merzbow gives us five tracks of pure sludge, right up the alley of the rest of his 90s work-- a solid wall of noise with enough going on behind it to make it somewhat interesting. It's not his finest work of this period (for that, head for 1994's Venereology [Release] or 1997's Akasha Gulva [Alien8]), but it's certainly serviceable Merz. Then, there's Bastard Noise's contribution. I've since seen them live, and either they've improved mightily as a noise band in the past four years, or these were outtakes recorded while the members had some sort of odd tropical disease that causes everything a person records to become utterly unlistenable. For the Merzbow completist only."