KAREN CONSTANCE / DYLAN NYOUKIS
The Final Fumes From The Soup Bowls
(New Forces) Cassette $10.00
The downside of early parole — no more prison experiments for you, just a resumption of your assigned position within the ranks of fleshapoids cranking out respectable contributions to society until the sweet chariot swings low. But your remaining time doesn’t have to be like this, citizen. Send the caterers home already and bib up for a 30-minute sound collage spewt from Brighton’s well-tended psychotropic brine pool. Your interior miasma craves what people like Constance and Nyoukis deliver with tape music: the spontaneity of the deeply fogged forever at odds with the severity of composed gelatin sculpture. All experiential accretion in vividness, no erosion. Were your eyes literal windows, what a delight it’d be for others to observe your neurons sparkle as you listen to The Final Fumes From The Soup Bowls. With customized oven mitts drying on screens, the jubilee sneeze guards stacked in crates on the loading dock ready to be unpacked, The World’s Toughest Milkman breaches the servant’s entrance to accompany the winner of last year’s Mme Beyond Peppersteak crown for the third and final nugget in the duo’s series dedicated to and inspired by wet supper. Disembody and plunge into the plasma, the turpentine, the microplastics-tainted Lea & Perrins, and the layers of desquamated skin undulating in a fiery bog. So much awaits: electronic yelps from the void; mechanical gurgles a-plenty; amphibian distress calls — fragmented, curled, stomped upon; juddering rasps; the degree of suave editing we have every right to expect from sound collage and side salads; stunt panning; loops; field recordings. Environ nirvana. Includes DL code. c30
Issue 9
(New Forces) Magazine $4.75 (Out-of-stock)
One long interview with Sissy Spacek in honor of their twentieth anniversary, plus reviews. Twenty pages.
Trash Staging
(New Forces - NF058) LP $16.50
The 45-rpm A-Side “unleashes a noisy grindcore assault,” say our friends at Brain Tangle, “The drums blending with the electronics into a massive wall of sound. Feedback, blast beats, and screeching vocals pummel the listener for five perfect minutes.” The 33rpm B-Side is “dynamic and free flowing…, the sort of noise that can induce a trance-like state at high volumes. For those of you who always want your music louder, faster, and more intense, look no further.”