A duo from Melbourne, Snawklor has been around for several years. Rushes is their debut album and catches them moving deep into laptop DSP territory. The stunning opening track ‘Carbonated’ begins with a recording of the fine spray of mist that hisses above a freshly poured glass of Coke before breaking down into a digital spray of microscopically chopped static and the slow chiming of gongs. The effect on this and the third track, ‘Strettle’, of gongs recalls moments of the infamous Coil 12” How To Destroy Angels. ‘Strettle’, the other standout track on Rushes, creates a digital African swamp out of sound. Digital insects and birds chirp and rattle whilst every so often a foreboding subsonic rumble, perhaps a hippopotamus, rolls by. Elsewhere on Rushes the more traditional urban world, snatches of television and noisy static glitches, are the subject of Snawklor’s field recordings and computer manipulation. These, whilst interesting sound experiments, finely mastered by Delire, are more what you might normally expect.
Sebastian Chan
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