Since the demise of Canadian now-wave power-trio AIDS Wolf earlier this year, its members have reverted to outlets they've had before their time as a band: founders Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum have continued to pore over their chaotic output in the form of silkscreened posters and abstract sculptures for their Seripop project while guitarist Alexander Moskos has spent time under his solo moniker Drainolith, unleashing some of the oddest tapes ever conceived in the vicinity of the synth underground.
Fighting!, Drainolith's debut LP, has been brought to us by Spectrum Spools-- the Editions Mego subsidiary run by Emeralds member John Elliot and essentially the launch pad for initially cassette-rooted electronic artists-- but sounds almost entirely unlike the rest of its roster thus far. If anything, Drainolith trumps labelmate Bee Mask on the grounds of modular absurdity. Moskos' guitar tactics don't seem to have deviated too far from those applied to AIDS Wolf efforts on the frenetic "She's IN insurgency (Steve's Lunch Blues)" with jagged, stumbling riffs bent out of shape-- "a mental boogaloo" as Moskos dryly narrates in his Mark Morgan-esque moan. It's about as aurally familiar as Fighting! is willing to get.
Drainolith fits the mold of Moskos' exploits, because there is a sewage-like viscosity to his compositional disarray, yet there's also an underlying hardness to how his synth pulses attack, like the paced kicks and phaser-fed interjections of "Blam's Again". This discombobulation comes paired with his abstruse lyrical trips, such as the numerical dialogue within "Sevens/Cuttin' Squares", "Yeah, 6, 9, 14 / She looked over me and said '33'." Moskos' musical vocabulary is vast, having been in projects both bizarre (Alterity Problem) and sublime (Colored Mushroom & the Medicine Rocks), and comprehending it will take some culture shock.
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[Stream/Buy Fighting! from Spectrum Spools]
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