Album Type: Split 12”
Date Released: 02/06/2017
Label: Dry Cough Records |
Halo of
Flies
This is an awe-inspiring release from two
incredible bands who can seemingly do no wrong at the moment and continue to
deliver an embarrassment of heavy riches in 2017.
"Clout Rat/Disrotted" Split DD//LP
track listing:
1). Cloud Rat
– “Holding the Picture”
2). Disrotted
– “Disrotted”
The Review:
Cloud Rat and Disrotted continue their intense
2017 release schedules with a killer split LP of contrasting styles. This split
has come into being due to the strong bond between the two bands and while it
may seem a strange stylistic pairing in theory it works a treat in practice.
Michigan’s Cloud Rat
depart from their usual format of short, sharp bursts of mayhem and deliver one
eighteen minute monster. “Holding The
Picture” begins in familiar territory, a whirlwind blur of chaotic screamo
and relentless grindcore. The volume soon dips and the tempo decreases as the
track develops into a slow-burning epic that smoulders with restrained power.
This more melodic approach recalls Converge’s calmer moments delivered against a
barren dustbowl backdrop reminiscent of Earth. It is a breathtaking achievement to
create a beast of such sublime complexity and weighty emotional impact from the band’s minimal set-up of vocals, drums and guitar
augmented only by occasional piano. This may not be Cloud Rat at their heaviest but
they ably demonstrate that they lose none of their intensity and impact when
they push their sound into quieter and more experimental realms.
Disrotted’s contribution to this
split is twenty three minutes of slow-motion terror entitled “Disrotted”. The Chicago
This is an
awe-inspiring release from two incredible bands who can seemingly do no wrong
at the moment and continue to deliver an embarrassment of heavy riches in 2017.
