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KNIFELADDER: Organic Traces Release year: 2002 Format: CD Tracklist: I: Red Drum Total Length: 59:02 min General facts: Knifeladder is an Organic/Industrial hybrid wich has been an active live-act in London and Germany during the last years. The project features John Murphy (SPK, Current 93, Shriekback, Max Q, The Associates etc.), Hunter Barr (Infant Skull Surgery, Altered States), Andrew Trail (Inertia, Ministry of Love). Organic Traces is their second album but the band has also released several limited and special releases. Review: Finding the appropriate words to summarise this album isn't an easy task. Knifeladder works in the experimental realm, innovating musical tradition while also paving the way for new ones. This is a caustic hybrid of Industrial music and Organic music, sometimes very psychedelic in nature. This goes especially for the very decadent, muddled atmosphere of Ossirian Window. It touches upon several of the Industrial related genres, ranging from Dark Ambient to Apocalyptic Folk, yet never really settling in one particular genre. While the first three tracks of this album are relatively calm, the end tracks is like chain reaction of incinerating hard-hitting music. True to it's name, Dervish reach almost lunatic proportions with its cyclone of frenzied drums and sick, screaming voices. The same goes for the slightly slower Feline where the unorthodox drumtextures and the disturbed drones are almost hypnotising in a most discrete fashion. Another great track is The Wilderness of Mirrors which is for sure the calmest of this album, yet not losing any of the twistedness that permeate the whole of this CD. It eventually inaugurates the more percussionised section of this CD, eventually stepping aside for the sick opening of the above mentioned Feline. To be honest, these three are the only tracks on this album that I really like. The others are of quality as well when it comes to originality and innovation, yet they fail to really match my taste. Thus I find myself only listening to the later part of this CD with the exception of enjoying some of the highlights from the other tracks. I think this will appeal to people into Experimental Organic/Industrial from the C93 etc. camp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Click here to enter Knifeladder's website - Click here to contact Knifeladder |
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