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Andrew Liles

Monstrous Medical Mishaps (Horrendous Hospitals And Disastrous Dentistry)

    Andrew Liles releases another instalment in his ongoing Monster series and his fourth record for Blackest Rainbow. Monstrous Medical Mishaps (Horrendous Hospitals and Disastrous Dentistry) is a medically themed album. Many of the rhythm tracks used on the recording were constructed from an array of meticulously crafted samples garnered from an assortment of medical and dental instruments being tapped, scraped and plucked.
    As with all Liles releases, this L.P. covers a huge and unpredictable musical landscape ranging from leftfield electronica and twisted beats through to the unfathomably bizarre.

    Open your mouth and say "arrrrgh!"
    Stunning cover art comes from Zeke Clough, known for electronic music's most shockingly morbid and detailed sleeve art, whose twisted designs came to define the aesthetic of the groundbreaking Dubstep label Skull Disco.


    One of the murkiest, most foreboding excursions on the label so far - Vardøgr is the debut long player from the Dublin trio Dentistry.

    The word vardøgr is a Norwegian term defined as 'a premonitory sound or sight of a person before he arrives’. Like a reverse episode of déjà vu possibly, the title hints at many of the mysterious sensory anomalies that have confronted many of the great thinkers and spiritualists as they have contemplated the philosophical minefield of trying to understand human consciousness and perception. And it is this foggy terrain that gets explored over the albums five tracks.

    The arc of the album is easy to interpret, but the sounds are mysterious enough to beguile. This trio has done well to exercise restraint, to suggest rather than to show. In using this technique, they imitate the best directors, who create tension without resorting to shock.


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