Another one of the Merz-Series on Important Rec.
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I don't know about you guys out in the virtual world out there, but I'm pretty chuffed to see Mr. Merzbow (otherwise known as Japanoise genius Masami Akita) dumping the chugging laptop noise rubbish and going back to what I really like - guitars and analogue synths. 'Merzbear' is the sixth album in Akita's Merz series for Important records and is the most 'analogue' yet, with most of the sounds coming from killer vintage analogue synth the EMS Synthi and his homemade 'junk' guitar. I'm not entirely sure what a junk guitar is but listening to the tracks on here it's made pretty clear the sort of noises that come out of it - screeching deadly tones and rumbles that cut through the record like a knife through butter. This is Merzbow how I love to hear him, taking a chunk of Nurse With Wound and Throbbing Gristle and fusing it with a love of early electronics and psychedelic rock - the resulting audio slop is not as frenetic or as unlistenable as you might think either. It's hard to explain, it's still noise but this ain't Akita in full-on white noise mode, this is something far more interesting than that, and while it isn't as traditionally 'noisy', it has an intensity which is almost impossible to match. With 'Merzbear' we have Akita turning to the young upstarts of the noise scene and showing that he can take them all on at once, man to man - they might be putting the punk rock back into it, but damn, Akita was there 25 years ago and he's still got it. Whether it's shards of broken electric guitar or giant oscillating synthesizer drones, each sound is terrifying and visceral - you want something that's gonna make you sit up and take notice, look no further. Without a doubt my favourite so far in the Merz series and probably Akita's finest work for a while now, you need this album.
- Boomkat Presstext
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