Second brain-peeling instalment of vocal/computer extremity from two masters of the form, Mattin of European avant-punks Billy Bao et al and Junko of Japanese noise legends Hijokaidan. The combination of Junko's high, otherworldly vocal improvisations and Mattin's scalpel-sharp electronic environments push the whole flesh-metal equation of modern ecstatic noise into the kinda euphorically violent realms of classics of the form like Harry Pussy's Let's Build A Pussy, early Whitehouse, the saxophone eviscerations of Masayoshi Urabe et al., indeed, the first side - a vocal 'duet' between Mattin and Junko - feels like a more overtly sound-poetry informed take on the Whitehouse sound circa Total Sex, while parts of the flip, made up of solitary Junko vocals cut up with incisions of symmetrical noise, are so reductively alien that it could almost be a candidate for one of Alan Licht's legendary Minimalism Top Tens. Either way, it's a beauty. Highly recommended.
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PAST TIP OF THE TONGUES
