Guilt Attendant – Suburban Scum (Album – Hospital Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, trance.
Format: Digital, Double Vinyl.
Background/Info: Guilt Attendant is a project driven by Brooklyn (USA) based Nathaniel Young. He’s active as a musician, designer, visual artist, photographer while running the record label Severed Mercies. Guilt Attendant has released multiple EP’s on Severed Mercies, but this debut album has been released by Hospital Productions.
Content: Nathaniel Young is clearly driven by techno music, but he carefully mixes this style with other influences. Several tracks are recovered with trance leads while the global production also reveals a rough and industrial sound approach. Most of the cuts are holding you in their grip for a duration of 5 or 6 minutes long, but a few ones are going even further. “Self-Sacrifice Doctrine” is progressively built up and became a track of nearly 17 minutes. It definitely sounds like the offspring between techno and industrial, but still has an experimental touch.
+ + + : I like this album for its open-minded techno spectrum. The tracks are mainly centered on industrial-techno music with some psy-trance leads above. I like the rough sound treatments, which mainly come through at “Cursed Spawn Of White Flight” and “Self-Sacrifice Doctrine”.
– – – : The album features several cool cuts, but is missing a real climax in the tracklist.
Conclusion: “Suburban Scum” sounds dirty and that’s precisely what this album sounds for; a dirty techno sound!
Best songs: “Cursed Spawn Of White Flight”, “Self-Sacrifice Doctrine”, “The Icon Is God”, “Broken Free”.
Rate: (7).
Artist: www.facebook.com/guiltattendant
Label: https://hospitalproductions.net / www.facebook.com/pages/Hospital-Productions/201203726563450
About Guilt Attendant
Guilt Attendant is the solo project of Brooklyn, New York-based graphic designer, DJ and photographer Nathaniel Young, who also runs the record label Severed Mercies. After early tracks in 2018, Guilt Attendant released the EPs “I Used to Pray to Jesus”, “A Reminder of Discipline” and “Do Your Part New York City!” on Severed Mercies in 2020, the same year Hospital Productions issued the debut album “Suburban Scum”. Young has continued the project since with “Burning the Rural District” (2022, Hospital Productions) and “A Flower Wilts Under the Heat of the Son” (2024, Unimatrix Zero), a label he also co-owns.
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