Dyatlov is back!
If you follow this page regularly (and Google's telling me you don't) you
probably noticed
my post about Dyatlov's debut EP, two tracks of insane upbeat noise-synth-punk made in Holland which made
it to
my year's end top list
(highest distinction any band can dream of these days).
Well the crazy Dutchmen are back on
Spazz Records
with a new two-track EP called Insect Paranoia.
Before plunging into noise and sweat, the first thing I noticed was the sudden change of style/atmosphere in the cover, while the one from their
first EP was clearly to not be taken seriously, even mocking
poor Anatoli and his professional mistakes, this one is glommy and
morbid, recalling the dark shores of genres called anarcho punk, d-beat, crust, dark
waves etc... and not what I imagined as a sunny Dyatlov's beach on
the North Sea... (I
actually can't picture it).
And indeed Insect Paranoia's overall atmosphere is a lot less
"fun"...
If you survived the watching of the above clip, well first good on you
mate you're probably not epileptic and won't collapse anytime soon at your
little niece's next birthday, on the contrary if you are writhing on the
ground in pain while vomiting your corn flakes you probably didn't pay
attention to the nice warning at the very beginning, you know just before your eyes got nuked by
thousand of fluorescent flashes (they warned you though, so... too bad).
So no Dyatlov didn't turn into a dark/cold-wave band (thanks
Satan), the "noise-synth-punk" formula remains untouched but, yes there is
a BUT, I don't feel the bursting upfront energy of
Wound Man... Insect Paranoia is more restrained, bleaker, less
in-your-face, building more in repetition and length. And that doesn't
necessary mean it's a bad thing, it's just different but I have to say
that it was the "mean", "resentful" and "aggressive" atmosphere (we're not talking NYHC
aggressiveness type here of course but you know what I mean) that I
particularly enjoyed in their first release and it's a bit more difficult
for me to get into it this time.
Less flashes, more lovely Dutch landscapes (life is a journey).
So Death Machine / Factory (a double track in one, amazing!) starts exactly like what I was expecting for the A side: noisy, fast, mean and straight to the point! One minute and some twenty seconds later (the end of the too short Death Machine?), the second track builds from the rubble in a cold "industrial" atmosphere (this is Factory after all) before mixing in some kind of "farcical" Freak Show vibe, giving to the whole thing a strange atmosphere full of extreme discomfort and uneasiness coming for two opposite sides of my "pop culture horror themes clichés" (the abandoned factory and the early 20th century freak show).
And it does work beautifully! I think I like this side a lot more than the Insect Paranoia one, it got the driving upfront craziness I'm fond of at the beginning and the slow discomfort building of a very peculiar atmosphere afterward, and yes that's great!
Anyway I've heard that a full length's on the way (on Spazz again of course)... and that's a release I'm definitely not going to miss!
N,J'Oi!
PS: it seems that Rader Kraft, an electro minimal-synth live act from Amsterdam, will release very soon some kind of "cover" of Insect Paranoia (why not).
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