Visceral Snacks

Weird Weather present their debut album, a contorted and heavily mangled sound-set of FM synths, old samplers and sonic detritus. Over nine tracks (and a further five remixes from the ATC Alumni and the CD-only club-crusher ‘Friendly Spike’) they traverse thru rhythmic tone-poems, hostile steppers, Moon Musick and illbient heavy metal...blackened trip-hop?! Repetitive slice-of-life vocal snippets that dance in and out of the mix; staccato drum-breaks that merge with curious melodies evoking irregular influence. Distortion-maxxing the plaque off your pineal gland, evolving and disquieting passages providing brief relief from the drum-led onslaught. The mecha-tech face-off with Franco Franco for ‘Olive Green’ was written in stone, solid as Goram’s jaw. ‘Ring’ features Anna Homler (AKA Breadwoman!) evoking a kind of ancient longing, a melancholy that goes further than the usual applied minimalism. Lead single ‘Visceral Snack’ is something genuinely original, whilst belonging to the lineage of England’s Hidden Reverse. Aided and abetted by the brace of remixes that accompany - kicking off aggy with palpable paranoia from Prangers. Cruelle's almost balaeric autotune ambience that floats hauntingly above her trademark hefty bass. Kinlaw somehow adds even more gnarl to ‘Olive Green’ plus an extra seething re-vocal from Franco Franco. From Näcken Du Naon (Tzii & Officium) comes a sub-tle yet deadly Version, utilising their decades spent honing the dark arts. Memotone masterfully reinvents ‘Ring’ entirely with a banjo and a RAT pedal.