Beppu – Post Content

Label/Catalog#: Other Ideas / OTRC003
Release date: 2014
Source: Cassette
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 67 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno

Tracklist:
01 Verbal Objections
02 Prediction Of Obedience
03 Collective Representation
04 Paradoxical Unkowns
05 Estimated Pain Scale
06 Repetition Of Stimulus
07 Sequential Influence
08 Diffusion Traceback

Andrew Hargreaves of The Boats returns with an excellent, noisy new Beppu album. Arriving in the wake of this year’s ‘Coercion’ LP, the ‘Post Content’ session features eight of Andrew’s most malevolent industrial/noise excursions inspired by the early waves of TG and Clock DVA and strongly compatible with the recent wave of gear from Vatican Shadow, Alberich et al. And while it might all just be “noise” to the lay listener, there’s a thread of melodic ambiguity to Beppu’s music that’s become his charred brand; from the thunderous discord of ‘Verbal Objections’ thru the riotous din of ‘Paradoxical Unknowns’ and the desolate gloom of ‘Diffusion Traceback’. That unique blend of anxiety, romance, and repressed violence that can’t be tamed…