Labels: Leoslayer
Review by: Kunal Nandi
Another wonderfully bizarre missive from Monsieur Slayer, aka Sned (of Flat Earth Records and general pop stardom fame)’s noise project. Surprisingly, it’s not actually that noisy, avoiding the overtly overwhelming attack of an all-out aural assault for a far more subtle minimalist approach. Perhaps it’s just the geek in me, but there’s a definite feel of being space bound with this, with plenty of 50’s sci-fi movie-esque bleeps and bloops, coupled with some more sinister Blade Runner-style foley sound effects. It all sounds pleasingly artificial, and there is always that feeling of all-pervading, thrumming, subliminal evil to it that means that whilst working on a soothing ambient level, when you decide to really concentrate there’s enough there to keep you attentive and intrigued. It stays largely consistent for the first half hour or so, before fluidly and unexpectedly phasing into a panicky beat fest followed by a twanged guitar section that sounds like Ry Cooder on Mir. And if that’s not enough, this’ll probably only set you back a quid.