Troniks – TRO-302
Oh, holy heck! This is one ferocious beast of an album, a non-stop
convulsion of nine concise blammo noise attacks that’s exactly as fierce
as one might want/imagine a Marvel Team-Up of John Wiese and Wyatt
Howland/Skin Graft to be. Straight out of the gate from its opening
volley, this pummels… there’s so much constant motion and so many
simultaneous competing lines of noise that it demands deep attention to
keep up with the barrage of simultaneous explosions. A glass-shattering
cascade will fire in several directions with different shades of crunch,
stutter for half a second, then reconfigure and blast again with
machine-gun scatter, glassine feedback and synthesizer spraying new
colours/shapes. “Accessible World” attacks at top velocity for its short
duration… which is just long enough to cram in enough energy to fuel a
dozen lesser noise albums. On “Melpomene”, for example, the track’s five
minutes contain a whirl of competing elements that twist, implode, then
erupt over and over. A lesser album might have been expanded from this
piece alone, but Wiese favours brevity… his discography (both solo and
with his group Sissy Spacek) features a surprising number of one-sided
seven inches and half-hour-or-less CDs. I suppose he likes to get to the
point and leave ‘em breathlessly wanting more… which he does! So while
it shouldn’t be a surprise that these nine tracks last just over half an
hour, he packs plenty of information to warrant return visits, allowing
listeners to change focus and hear the ultra-dense and ultra-active
music differently. The quick inhalations between tracks are the only
pause that a listener gets, and they aren’t much respite… “Accessible
World” is restless noise, ceaseless high-density sound in perpetual
furiously-breathless motion, recorded at a level of clarity to
encourage/reward concentrated listening if that’s what you want to do
with it. Or, you can play “Accessible World” loud and not overthink it…
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