When you play this, get in the mood for some noisy heavy shit that gets a little cheesy sometimes but damn, it's worth it. I found it sounds especially devastating on a rainy day on some old speakers (subwoofer necessary fersher) in a friend's apartment in Caballito, Buenos Aires. The distorted bass seems to sort of create a ripping sensation while the noise envelopes, supported by some furious vocals and, though simple, very solid drumming. The riffs just seem to drive and drive on, not in the same sense that a band like Bongripper will hang on the same riff and you just lose yourself in it, but more in the sense that if you don't keep playing over and over again and pushing forward you're going to suffer from some bizarre disease and whither away and die. In other words, it's a little more anxious than your typical sludge/crust/doom/stoner/whatever record and the noise makes it feel like a science fiction film.
For me, this is one of the best developed sludge records I've heard yet. The piano interludes with spacey ambient sound in the background gets me every fucking time, and it functions with the exact intentions you expect - the heavy parts are just crushing after you hear those pretty scores. I could do without the sound bytes though. Asilo is from Buenos Aires, Argentina and their release for their latest tape is in a week - I'll be picking up more than one, because this band needs some exposure outside it's native country.
Genres: Sludge, Doom, Noise, Crust
(the video doesn't do it justice, listen to the album on bandcamp)
1. Geografías
2. Pichiciega Fe
3. (epidemia mundial de desencanto)
4. La Paciencia del Cuchillo
5. Arquitectura del Silencio
6. (anti voz)
7. Dinámica del Cambio
8. Miedo y Curiosidad
9. (no a la vida)
10. La Ultima Voluntad
