DI26
Cat#: DI26
Artist: Skin Graft
Title: Brick in the Mouth of a Corpse
Date of Release: 6/30/2009
Edition Size: 149 (hand numbered w/ballpoint pen)
Materials: C20 (BASF chrome stock in “smoky” 5-screw shell), full-color printed adhesive labels, full-color print on semigloss cardstock, rubber-stamped matte white adhesive label, soft polybox.
Availability: Sold out at source.
Description:
As proof that some small amount of justice lingers in the world, Cleveland veteran Wyatt Howland is finally getting his dues, having spent the past several years amassing a discography studded with many of the all-time classics of fucked rust belt electronics (Soft Police Murder, Drug Addict, You Deserve Nothing, and the watershed Blackout lp on Tusco Embassy, to name but a handful), collabbing tirelessly with the likes of Ryan Kuehn, David Russell, Emeralds, and Aaron Dilloway, and turning in an endless stream of punishingly focused, concise, and pissed-off performances that simply must be witnessed to be believed.
Brick in the Mouth of a Corpse is both a fitting introduction to Skin Graft and a bar-raiser for those already initiated, on which Howland continues to wax subtle, detailed, and glowering, as though drawing cross-sections of harsh noise with a drafting pencil, allowing us to view the creaking, dripping, and hissing armature under its skin. This is a strategy that could never be sustained without the patience and technique that are present in spades across the six tracks that make up Brick, meticulously crafted vignettes that range from the principled scraping of bones and bodyslamming of trashcans to waking up brutally hung over beside a rustily copulating heap of sonar equipment. Essential filth.
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