"Naked in France" by Noxagt, the leadoff track from their new album, Iron Point

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There is a filthy bass guitar groove that sounds like a bulldozer doing a funk step. It is simultaneously bright, sludgy, ominous. The drums enter and maintain a simple, modest clip using 4/4 kick drum and a ride cymbal that clangs away with nervous tension. Then there appears screechy violin strings rubbing themselves like demonic cicadas. Demonic cicadas from HELL! Then a quick bass and hi-hat shuffle-up, immediately followed by this dubbed-out snare slap that's dripping in echo. Soon the violin turns into a wheezing stutter and begins honking along with a snare roll that builds up and up and up and up and up and up and finally OUT into this wild cataclysm of streaking violin runs disguised as firecrackers in your ear. Rabid tambourines shake out the devil as a whizzing, buzzing, utterly psychotic crossfire of noise and chaos zips around in your brain. It reels back into the pattern before exposing a series of tightly-coiled bent blues notes, and then coming to an unexpected halt. You are left dazed in a cloud of reverberation. This is the best song I've heard in a long, long time. Norway wins again.

― Famous Athlete, Monday, 12 April 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck I was gonna buy this yesterday too - how's the rest?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The rest is all super cool as well. There's a track with an old norsk dude singing opera -- I believe he's someone in the band's granddad? The recording is stepped up a bit from Since 2001. The drums pummel more, bass is fuller, brighter. Just a very pleasing group in general to my ears.

― Famous Athlete, Monday, 12 April 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Haven't heard the new record yet, but when they were killer when I saw 'em last year.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 12 April 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything Kjetil does = classic

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 12 April 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i just dl'd the new album a couple a days ago, and was slightly disappointed by how similar it sounds to their last one. i love Turning It Down Since 2001 of course, but i was kinda hoping for something different this time. i've only played this new one a couple of times though, so i might think differently tomorrow.

There's a track with an old norsk dude singing opera

i checked with Google and it seems that "Kling No Klokka" ("Sound The Bell") actually is a nineteenth century christmas hymn. the melody is a traditional, while the words are by Elias Blix. if i got that part right. i have no idea who's singing. does it say in the booklet?

― tod (tod), Monday, 12 April 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

pretty good, i thought it was more diverse than "turning it down" in terms of sound. like, the viola is all over the place.

plus: pearls before swine cover, totally out of left field.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 12 April 2004 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe he's someone in the band's granddad?

you're right. from www.loadrecords.com: "The Iron Point" even has Nils Erga's (Noxagt's viola player) octogenarian grandfather singing on one track!

― tod (tod), Monday, 12 April 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

plus: pearls before swine cover, totally out of left field.

Is this on the album too? I know it's on the recently issued 2nd & 3rd volumes of the Pearls Before Swine tribute, For The Dead In Space.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it's on the album. thanks for reminding me i need to get those comps, though.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to buy this. Someone recommend something else from Load for me to buy with this. Ian, how's that 1999 mindflayer cd?

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

dean, have you gotten the most recent USAISAMONSTER ablioooom? it's pretty good. or olneyville sound system stuff, but i don't know if they have copies of the first cd anymore, and you don't listen to vinyl.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Something else from Load to buy? Demonstrations in Micronesia by Vaz. Classic, as far as I'm concerned.

― Famous Athlete, Monday, 12 April 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

and that mindflayer record is pretty good, but i like the one on bulb more. and the VINCEBUS ERUPTUM album is totally amazing.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Something else from Load to buy? Demonstrations in Micronesia by Vaz. Classic, as far as I'm concerned.

No doubt! That album is amazing...my band was recording at the same studio at the same time Vaz was doing that record....we'd get to hear the rough mixes they'd done before we came in...everytime I was just blown away! made me want to quit!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got the USA and VAZ stuff. I will get the Viki/Hairpolice split.

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

get the vincebus record, dood. if you're into heavy at all.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Hair Police are wonderful.

― scott m (mcd), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

HEY OLNEYVILLE SOUNDSYSTEM, YOU THE BEST!

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Monday, 12 April 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I want that paperrad dvd and new lightningbolt like, now.

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

DEAN, DO YOU HAVE 1999.999999999999999999?

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

NO SLUT

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

GET IT NOW!!!!!!

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

OK DUUD

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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