The infamous Yellow Swans' new album Global Clone collects together various songs from rare cassette only releases over the years.
The first track is much quieter than your average Yellow Swans song. It's almost too quiet. You'd expect it to build at some point, but no such luck.
Track 2 begins with a quiet distored beat but that slowly fades away and gives room for feedback and static to take center-stage. Sounds jump all around changing and running through channels throughout the 23 minutes of this monster of a song.
Track 3 is the soundtrack to a dead city. Empty streets and beaten down houses. The air blows though and knocks a few things around. The creatures begin to crawl as the song progresses and their inhuman howls interrupt the wind for a short time and then suprisingly disappear and the wind comes back.
Track 4 has a stacatto sound to it's noises. It's deep and booming but the sounds themselves all have a central rythm of sorts. It's sharp and at times almost pounding. The fact that this duo involves a guitar is more obvious than in some other sounds and it sounds wonderful. The last half of the track uses the odd insect type noise you'd expect to hear on the Wolf Eyes album Burned Mind.
The last track starts right out with the clashing sounds and the electronic hum of something overheating. Again the guitar is heard very clearly. At some points it seems as though you're imaginging voices from out of the sounds but they are in fact there. They're distorted and dragged out and whispery but they are there.
Though Global Clone just a compilation of random odds and ends it flows as if it was meant to be an album. The songs themselves just fit together perfectly.
Yellow Swans | Purchase Global Clone
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