Band info
Band: Dolorous Gnaw
Album: ‘Cosmically Forlorn Soul‘
Genre: noise, experimental
Released December 11th, 205
Location: Australia
Review
Is there anything more radical in its concept than noise? Not noise rock or these noisy ambient tunes, but straight-up noise? The newest release of Dolorous Gnaw, a project which we featured before, provides us with just that.
Tone set by the cover artwork. Snippets of grey X-ray scans just like a late 90s grindcore album, only that this is more of all. A collage of trauma, stress, anger and frustration blended into a mixture of waves, cracking and breaching against your eardrums.
It is actually pretty hard to say anything about this project. It is not the same to criticise something that is less music than an acoustical installation in its form of art. And if its aim was for a certain range of emotions to spill onto the listener, then it may well have succeeded in hitting that goal. To stand in a room filled with this noise, underlying barely understandable samples, while being presented with those images. Being forced to reflect on that medical system of inequality that is forced upon every person by the nations and their governments just because it always was this way. That would make you feel a certain way. And it would be the appropriate form of listening for this album.
On its own, though, it can be really hard, like so many releases in this genre; it’s not exactly made for easy consumption. This is a burden. So be warned.
Other links and platforms:
BC: https://dolorousgnaw.bandcamp.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/ivory_primarchnoise/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/paleghoulrecordings/