Music Round-Up: Modern Feelings / Heith / Cage Suburbia

Modern Feelings - Modern Feelings (Sahko Recordings) >>>>>>>>>> warning: not for the faint-hearted or those horses that scare easily......Improv...what do you make of it? Do you long for melody, structure, harmony? Yes? We all like that but..you know....sometimes it's good to jump into sonic waters of the opposite kind...where there's no lifeguard (except the 'stop' button)....and it's all the Deep End......Anton Nikkilä (electronics, guitar), Pekka Airaksinen (piano), Ari Salonen (bass), Samuli Tanner (drums, electronics) 'live' and electro-acoustic..........there is breathing space (on Smooth variations V1) but a lot of crowded cut 'n' thrust between all involved as they bounce off each other like rubber balls in a box being shaken ...........a big box...........made of steel...........oh, you know what I mean...................Improv may not be anybody's everybody's cuppa tea.........but it's a buzz....like electro-shock therapy......and as such, is good for you........but with potentially damaging side effects..............Sahko Recordings

Heith - Silence Will Expire / Cage Suburbia - Argument #02 (HaunterRecords) >>>>

......two EPs from Haunter Records......yes, so what?...they're both very good....Heith heaving in with a 6-track trip to the doomy side of low-end noir artistry..........not quick fix coldness but studies, if I may be so bold, in the sub-strata....where bass frequencies wobble your innards...................and good electro-acoustics (on Directions For Falling, especially) prove that there's life yet in the creeping undead genre........................

Cage Suburbia comes from another angle...........the spiky one...spiky like a mace........a sonic mace embedding itself in your skull.............but you like it....I like it...........the racket, the rabid beats that can't contain what they're carrying.......the bonkers distortion of Port Au Prince with it's whiplash hissing and wild FX........each track's named after a port in Europe, so it's a travelogue of sorts........except....the kind which records a mental breakdown on speed whilst being beaten up by sailors high on crack who then ram a ship's propeller in your ears...........that kind..........evil.............and good.........