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CD (JNR01)
Release Date: 2003
Track Listing:
- How Foolish You Are
- Philistine Camp
- Deeds
- Apollyon
- Burst Into Song You Mountains
- Eight Number of New Beginnings
- Whoever Knows God
Melk's self-titled album was recorded in seven-hours--all songs are first-takes;
no overdubbing was used, and the sound is RAW. All the traditional melodies and musical conventions have been stripped away leaving the bare bones of an epic hard-rock opus. It is relentless, it's loud, it's mathy,
it's symphonic without being rigidly structured. I'm not sure that Melk could properly be considered a 'noise' band, because this is not shapeless distortion. Beneath the pirouetting curlicues of feedback and the convulsive pulse of the drums--there is a geometry and there is a message.
If you could run an MRI on this album it would look like a brain in the grips of a religious seizure. In fact, it's been described as 'noise-prayer.' If you have any interest in finding out what that sounds like, check this album out.
REVIEWS
"...Just hearing the drums freak out nearly constantly throughout "Whoever...." is worth the cost of the album. Together, Melk the G6-49 makes a wall of sound so dangerously unconventional and label bending that slapping a label on this feels like going out and stomping around in an unbroken field of snow. It's just sacrilege."
— Delusions of Adequacy
"They're the metal equivalents of Matthew Shipp and William Parker... beneath the layers of difficulty, the duo fucking rock."
— Splendid
"...an absolutely amazing noise-instrumental outfit. Do yourself a favor and get this album... You won't regret it."
— Smother
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