Colossloth – Promethean Meat (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-Noise, Industrial.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Wooly Woolaston aka Colossloth strikes back with his fourth full length album released by Cold Spring. He also released a few earlier albums before the Cold Spring period.
Content: I always linked Colossloth to heavy experiments in Noise. This album is not that different for the Noise influence, but the production became more rhythmic than ever before. From a pure anarchistic and improvised-like approach to heavier, rhythmed, pieces leading the listener into frenetic dance and transcendental sensation this work has a lot to offer.
+ + + : This is without a shadow of a doubt the hardest work by Colossloth and especially the accentuated rhythmic format sounds great. The work might appeal for lovers of true Noise improvisation but also for Rhythmic-Noise fans in need of dance. I like the heavy, repetitive, noise loops mixed with Industrial sound treatments leading you into trance. There’s also the more atypical “Dead Swan Song” which is slower and guided by ghost-like female vocals.
– – – : I’m less convinced by the debut part of the work which is more into pure improvisation.
Conclusion: This album sounds like being composed by a sonic ogre turning noises into dance.
Best songs: “Flowering Discipline”, “Dead Swan Song”, “Tethering The Constellation”, “Drownsize”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.facebook.com/colossloth
Label: www.coldspring.co.uk / www.facebook.com/coldspringhq
About Colossloth
Colossloth is the solo project of Wooly Woolaston, based in Leicester, England. His first album was released on the Belgian label Doom Structure in 2008, followed by an album on Doom Mantra Records in 2009 and one on Dark Meadow Recordings in 2011, before he signed to Cold Spring. “Promethean Meat” is his fourth full-length for Cold Spring, marking the first time Woolaston built the tracks around sampled and manipulated live drum recordings rather than his earlier, more purely improvised approach. Woolaston discussed the album’s evolution and themes in a Side-Line interview.
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