Zu - Remix - 7

Labels: Public Guilt
Review by: Kunal Nandi

Italy’s legendarily thunderous skronkcore machine, who were once so poundingly rhythmic when I saw them live once that they made me throw up, get the remix treatment for two tracks from their amazing “œCarboniferous” album. James Plotkin, operating solo on one side and as his Phantomsmasher combo alter-ego on the flip makes it fun to do the compare and contrast with the originals, but I think I’ll always prefer the latter. The upfront, relentless noise rock gets a murkily dense, swamped noise treatment which works well in its own claustrophobic right however. “œAxion” for example soon gets deconstructed to the point of freeform noise, with its great sax motif making a welcome reappearance in a lower register. This comes beautifully presented as you would expect from this great label too.

Public Guilt