Jute Gyte

https://soundcloud.com/blckhrzns/jute-gyte-funereal-like-a-life-in-wait

just in case you hadn't heard and felt like getting your jaw dropped again

the Ecferus half is amazing too - https://ecferus.bandcamp.com/album/jute-gyte-ecferus-split - and I need to listen to Ecferus a lot

how many new 20-minute jute gyte tracks did we need this week?

the answer was

two!!

https://soundcloud.com/blue-tapes/forthcoming-in-2017-from-x-ray-five-jute-gyte-the-sparrow

So, The Sparrow.

https://bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/x-ray-five-the-sparrow-12

Opening track is still amazing - not as dense, intricate or punishing in many ways as his more overtly black metal stuff, and it doesn't go crazy on the polytempic electronics either - it's more of a Branca-esque neoclassical piece in five movements, almost entirely for guitar. It features some of his most breathtaking polyphony yet, and some of his scariest music. sund4r and DAM you guys have GOT to hear it. I'm listening to that Branca thing in exchange :P

Second track Monadanom is another avant-classical piece - more ambient and with more swirling sonic depth (where The Sparrow was military and relentless, this is psychedelic and sly) - lots of very unsettling and unusual sounds in the mix, as well as what sounds like backwards guitar (the palindromic conceit of the title perhaps tying in here). Around halfway through it blossoms into an immense and cavernous layered drone before retreating into chilling microtonal sighs. I'm yet to fully wrap my head around it but it might even be the more impressive piece.

Nobody else is expressing an opinion on this so I don't know how to calibrate my own. It's amazing? Will that do?

Bonus: John Doran of sometimes this very parish has given it probably the best blurb any record in 2016 has received.

Sounds pretty good. Will say more after listening more.

But that was enjoyable.

I haven't listened to this yet (my concentration span for music is pisspoor these days, thanks mental health), am definitely interested in the more avant-classical side of JG though I wonder if I'll still find it not quite living up to the hype. Mainly posting here to point out to imago that Blue Tapes were also responsible for Katie Gately's first tape and I highly recommend you poke around the rest of their output (full disclosure: BT head honcho is a pal and I know it's a labour of love so promoting it to people may well be kinda shilling but also I genuinely think you're going to like a load of it).

yeah Blue Tapes guy seems great! will definitely have a poke about. 'pipes' was a truly astounding release and if there's anything even remotely close to that on the roster it'll be worth checking out!

this is so fucking good, we're lucky this and Krallice dropped after the metal poll

He needs to work with this singer
http://www.cmuse.org/anna-maria-hefele-does-overtone-singing/

https://youtu.be/vC9Qh709gas

and https://youtu.be/WlDi2XpK_dQ

Second microtonal trilogy concludes with Oviri, out 10th July

Cool. Been listening to Young Eagle recently and a lot of it's actually kinda loose and groovy, which is odd. Might be down to what sound like (v good) live drums.

I haven't really listened to that one at all! He's claimed the title/lyrics/aesthetic are basically a parody of the sort of absolutist philosophies espoused by many BM bands, which makes sense

The predecessor was named Old Ways to parody Black Metal's idealisation of basically non-existent ideas of old Nordic culture and cos it's the name of a Neil Young album (no further explanation), so yeah. I sometimes think there might be a fair amount of humour in his overwrought album notes on Bandcamp.

I only have like two of his records but they really repay close attention when I have close attention to give. I think time will show this guy to have been a valuable addition to the field, there's nobody really like him even though all the elements are familiar.

:)

and yeah, lots of dry humour. he's a massive DFW fan for starters

Cover connection

https://68.media.tumblr.com/2bf15bcb85c32e2e04b1cbd91b865341/tumblr_orwpt2nkhK1rkya77o1_400.png

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

5 minutes in and this is sounding way more nuts than the last one

"Mice Eating Gold" is closer to what I was expecting, that martial, lurching groove...

I just wrote THE NORMS THAT AUTHOR THE SELF RENDER THE SELF SUBSTITUTABLE on my whiteboard at work, fuck it get lit it's new Jute Gyte day!!

:D

Obviously this is completely insane

the opening minutes of "fauna of mirrors" are pure nightmare fuel

yeah that one

the last 16-17 minutes of the album are basically an experiment in fear featuring absolutely no metal whatsoever

it is a terrifying, alienating, crazed album. also I think it's not as good as the last few, but these are early impressions as i try to get my head around it. feels like it comes from an incredibly dark place and was a sort of punishment to make. perhaps these songs could be shorter (except the opening track, which is amazing and could be longer) but that would maybe spoil the protraction of the pain idk

I will be very curious to see the bandcamp notes

yeah seriously! the last three compositions are weirder and more difficult than even the sparrow ep

second track is also amazing tbf (haha it starts eh...)

Can't wait to get home from work today for this

Will listen when I'm in the "mood". sund4r tells me it's his best yet

Still early to say that definitively tbf but it does seem like he's taking his thing further out. I think this sounds a little better than the last one, also.

The tracks are really long and I haven't really broken down the compositions as compositions yet but a lot of great moments.

I've reached the point where I can confidently state that the first two tracks are brilliant, although there is a really obvious mistake kept in during the track 2 build! presumably kept in on purpose

https://i.imgur.com/9vULo0I.png

Speakers on 11 and on dis ting!

Title track is what's inside the Boîte Diabolique, 42 and soon to be 43 scarred souls forever

First impression: this album seems quite a bit more... accessible (relatively speaking obv) than its predecessors? There's bigger spaces in between the riffing and microtonal freakery. The build up in the first two songs doesn't throw you off in the deep end immediately (tho obv you'll find yourself there at the end). Less relentless, more menacing and creeping up on you.

Mice Eating's lost couple of minutes are simply beautiful in a sense his music is hardly ever beautiful, ie. straightforward.

~

Ok the above was just about the first two songs :-/

"Yarinareth, Yarinareth, Yarinareth, which signifieth Beyond—these words be carved in letters of gold upon the arch of the great portal of the Temple of Roon that men have builded looking towards the East upon the Sea, where Roon is carved as a giant trumpeter, with his trumpet pointing towards the East beyond the Seas."

Deadddd

This is my shit. Swiveling synth like sounds playing ping pong on your soul as the table, ghouls trying to climb up from out the netherworld, abrasive riffs, just a bit o' proper despair all round, creepy crawly fingerpicking. And again an outro of what, two, three minutes, that sounds like insects running amok inside your skull culminating in an obliterating white noise. How could anyone not love this?!

the opening minutes of "fauna of mirrors" are pure nightmare fuel

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that one

― imago, Thursday, July 6, 2017 1:06 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you guys weren't kidding, huh... When after the warbled gibberish teh riffs comes in... Chills down my spine

we all love creepy vocal fx right

3.30 to 5.30 bit in 'Fauna of Mirrors' is ex-qui-site

xp omt

Circling down ever further w/ the beginning of 'The Norms', which feels as catatonic as it feels cleansing. The whole composition feels like sitting in a cart, not controlling the horse, and constantly feel the stabbing of the cart in your side as you make twists and turns, down unknown corridors and alleys with mirror clad walls.

I know I'm not doing anyone a favour here with all this. But yeah, this is a great fucking album. Precisely because it comes from such a dark, dark place, like LJ mentioned. In a way it feels more accessible than his last couple of albums, but that's probably because I've only touched the surface. Too afraid for a headphone listen right now.

Last minutes of 'The Norms' are again heavenly, w/ the bells. Unearthly delight, lush like I've not heard from him ever before (though I don't know all his stuff).

'Oviri': the swallowing is whole, after being devoured this oddly feels like a warm bath. Within an absolute nightmare. (it is this one that ends way too soon and sudden for me tbh. I wasn't ready yet)

Amazing.

Yep, bought it today and listened on speakers and this is probably his best work.

disagree but it's still great. first half is stunning, second half maybe a fraction too abstruse to delight me 100% but still full of dark thrills

This... might not be his best but it's probably his most bizarre even by his standards. There are a few HOLY FUUUUCK moments but I don't like the way it jump-cuts between loud and quiet sections, I get that it's meant to be jarring but comes across as kind of lazy writing imo. Only listened to it the once so I guess this might change.

The review by that certain fucking dipshit on RYM might actually be the dumbest thing I've ever read on the internet, including transcriptions of Trump interviews

Mine hasn't arrived yet

It's still very good, my enthusiasm waned a bit with Perdurance but I'm pretty much back on board

sund4r has been saying for weeks its his best yet

It's not up there with Perdurance for me, yet, but I think it's a great album. And I love the change in dynamics; the 'quiet' sections still have so much going on in them.

Been listening to Ghost Sickness and it's great. Also, which is as odd as how kinda groovy Young Eagle turned out to be, it's mostly just very straightforwardly pretty.