Let Yeongrak’s Mouth Mouth Bite Your Ears Off – AdHoc

Let Yeongrak’s Mouth Mouth Bite Your Ears Off

The New Zealander’s latest track is extreme and sonically far out.

 

Mouth Mouth, the latest full-length transmission from New Zealand’s Yeongrak, is infernal to the teeth. Swathed in contorted melodies, skeletal percussion, and incinerating distortion, the cryptic producer’s latest interrogates the limits of what is sonically tolerable, shunting effect upon effects to create its hellish soundscape. Throughout much of the record, from the dully thumping opener, “ape rottin'” to the punishingly impenetrable closer, “shouldnt have a light fixture there anywy,” Yeongrak shrouds the growls, burbles, and the palpitating beats in a thick saliva of filtration and mutilation. And like saliva, this distortion corrodes the structures, instruments, and voices trapped within its inexorable viscosity. Occasionally, Yeongrak swallows this strangulating spit, allowing the distortion to dissipate. At its most lucid, on cuts like “leadpipe@heartsport.io” and “bandagey eggroll,” a fractal, gurgling landscape irrupted by shards of shrieks, squelches, and synth stabs comes into focus. As infuriating as it is irresistable, Mouth Mouth has gnawed its way into becoming one of the most bizarre and rewarding releases of 2017.

Mouth Mouth is out now via Quantum Natives.

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