Intense Records

Get A Life, Listen To Autumns (LP)

DNO Records
DNO020
Punk, Techno
12"

£12.49 (£14.99 incl. VAT)

Get A Life, Listen To Autumns is a statement that tells you everything you need to know about the quality and attitude of the Irish producers latest EP. His DNO debut presents five tracks of steel-studded EBM and industrial run through with his trademark dub aesthetics.A1 100 Ways To Get Fucked another bold title struts its stuff to a methodical stomp; strained vocals pulled out of shape and fed back into macabre forms; low-end chugging like some smoke-billowing, grease-slicked machine.Let It Melt picks up the pace, making judicious use of the reverse function, while subtle acid chirps and woozy arpeggios provide a chaotic, though not unpleasant, dissonance that induces a feeling of headrush.Petted swaggers like sex incarnate, alongside snatches of diva vox and the kind of sweeping space-age pads that Holst might have used had he been born a century later, seemingly taking cues from the hot and sweaty nights of 80s Chicago.Over on the B-side, LDRO sets its kicks and snares thrusting at full tilt over an inexorable bassline; Autumns favourite effect, delay, keeping things squelching like the jellified flesh of a ballistics dummy.And to finish, Gods Gift drops down to a sludgy rhythm though with surprisingly spritely percussion to match its tortured guitar, shrieking horns, and deadly subs. A fever dream of twisted metal and hot breath, like the gradual slowing after the climax of debauchery.Marking a sultry new route for DNO, Autumns first for the label is confident, confrontational, andnot to be missed.Rhythms of postmodern realism at the very bottom of the DNO.