CHECKPOINT by FACETOUCHER
australians might have smashed COVID19, but our american friends are suffering greater casualties than ever. with this in mind, FACETOUCHER decided to release his newest album of covidcore mouthnoise on an American label, instead of self-releasing it. and what better label than the diverse and hyperprolific Basement Corner Emissions out of Portland?
the release investigates even more deeply the voice+computerdrums long-feedbackloop processing that FACETOUCHER has been refining on albums like ZERO and REVELATIONS (which recently was Featured Album on 3PBS's 'Ear of the Behearer' programme). on CHECKPOINT, FACETOUCHER dives even deeper into the realms of brutal noise and postmetal glitched vocal spasms, but at the same time explores more minimalism, more delicacy, and more diversity of sound.
gone are the media samples introducing each track, making for a more immersive journey into spluttering coughing gurgling grindcorona - although the album does begin with one non-musical sample, a recording of FACETOUCHER driving through the checkpoint between the metropolitan 'ring of steel' and the rural area in which he resides - a checkpoint that he was forced to navigate every workday, and which (as of album release) no longer exists.
it's not really noise. it's not really grindcore. it's not really glitch. it's a novel strain of all three - and it seems to be spreading.
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