Album Type: Full Length
Date Released: 01/07/2016
Label: Truthseeker Music
Wonderfully
acidic and bludgeoningly sludgy, Palehorse's new creation, “Looking Wet in
Public”, is just magnificent.
“Looking Wet
in Public” CD//DD//LP track listing:
1).
Half Lizard / Half Lizard
2). Miserable Heroin Addict vs. Jehovah's Witness Guy
3). Lambs to the Laughter
4). The Shower
5). Terrifying Japanese Coldplay Documentary
6). 1893
2). Miserable Heroin Addict vs. Jehovah's Witness Guy
3). Lambs to the Laughter
4). The Shower
5). Terrifying Japanese Coldplay Documentary
6). 1893
The Review:
You
know when the grungy metal gods have sent you something magnificent when you
start to feel the music leave a greasiness on the skin, because it's that or my
soap has gone on strike. Wonderfully acidic and bludgeoningly sludgy, Palehorse's
new creation, “Looking Wet in Public”,
is just magnificent. At once suffused with a gloriously dirty sound, a
punishing delivery, and vocals that absolutely rub my throat raw, it's a tour
de force of what the underground can put out! A tour of the force of a sludge
pipe, perhaps, but a force of some sort for sure!
Make
no mistakes about Palehorse's intentions; as soon as you hit
play you shall be assaulted by massive sonic cinder blocks. There are no
warnings, just scratching, a word or so, and then you're being dragged down old
asphalt by your pant leg (“Half Lizard,
Half Lizard”). Palehorse vomit forth a sound that is a fight
for survival, it could be described as fraught, like learning a bandsaw as an
instrument. Songs like “Miserable Heroin
Addict vs Jehovas Witness Guy” (a shoe in for song title of the year) rely
on nothing so fancy as technical playing, individual notes, or articulation of
the fingers; no, instead you have chords that buzz modulate like a twisted
mechanical beehive. The band mixes violence, mechanical darkness, and just a
retching out of pure emotional strangulation in the form of vocal delivery. The
longest track, which is also the most plodding and slow, titled “Lambs to the Laughter”, is a perfect
example of what these guys do best, and that's peel the layers off your brain
slowly, like an onion, with the most jagged plastic knife possible.
“Looking Wet in Public” does have
lighter moments, such as the first half of “The Shower”, which then deforms into a nightmarish effects driven
track that will take you to many edges, musically. They suffocate with sonic
intrusions and modulate you into a blob of human goo; it's well crafted
debauchery given form, and slicked with production, allowing you to experience
the throes of scuzz like a slow drip. With “Looking Wet in Public”, Palehorse have given outlet to a violent, raw
album that should delight any fan of extreme music down to their toe socks.
Enjoy without shame, as they scratch that fix for you.
“Looking Wet in Public” is available here
