Арсений Литвин и Лёгкий Крах – сплит (Cassette, Torga Amun Rec. 2014)



Арсений Литвин и Лёгкий Крах seems to be a new noise project, as I never heard from it or found another release by this artist. The label on which it has been released is not so new and in fact a recommendation for professional CDr releases.

The titles of the tracks on this album are long, very long, so I won’t be mentioning them. There are 3 tracks; two on the A side and one on the B side. The first track is pure junk esthetics, drenched in harsh noise. Nasty, sharp feedback salvo’s, occasional moaning, washy noise textures and strange keyboard sounds create a nice mess and chaotic bleakness. The second track contains more junk noise, with scraping, clanging metal and bristling, low ranged noise, it sounds like a rusted factory where you don’t want to work. Very nice.. The track on the other half is different from the other two. It’s more brooding with it’s dark power electronics and esoteric, repetitive synth noises. But than again, it also has that industrial feel with the metal and steel objects. Very impressive, as it comes very close to releases from the much respected Lust Vessel label, like Lebensfaden for example.

This is a highly rated discovery and find, that you can’t put aside in the list of greatest noise releases of the year. It has similarity to the early releases from Sewer Election and like I mentioned before, some releases from Lust Vessel. Also the artwork is outstanding in it’s design. True old school noise you must check out!

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