This is an incredible collection of free-music/noise/droners from the shores of the UK. The first track by Smack Music 7 (Karen Constance of Blood Stereo, Ceylon Mange) is an 18 minute creeper moving in and out through the darkest recesses of the subconscious with harsh churnings echoed through manipulated tape-loops and chimes in total blackness and human screams and backward-masking fuckeries providing some ill vibes all-around ? becoming one of my favorite jammers of late. UBOAT is up next, a duo of Pascal Nichols and Ben Knight (of Stuckometer, Towering Breaker) and they quickly shake things up clamoring, stammering into some primitivist ecstatic free-jams of freely-associated guttural vocalizing colliding with clattered-percussion and hair-raising weirdo jazzic copulations and groans. Finally, Andy Jarvis (of the FirstPerson label, A Warm Palindrome) creates buzzing drones and squelchy free-drumming. The final track, appropriately titled Punch?d Plasma Blues, is a sick spacey feedback burner that just fucking rips and ends the cd perfectly. The listener feels both exhausted and satisfied. The CDR comes beautifully packaged in an artbook with a lino printed cover and Xeroxed art inside. Get one before they?re gone. Recommended! 8/10 --
Todd Brooks (13 May, 2008)