Unsustainable Social Condition // Seductive Distress CD

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“Unsustainable Social Condition is Matt Purse, who runs the Oxen label in Los Angeles. His sound is a full-on burl, just a ball of squirming tension that barrels forward and obliterates everything in its path. Purse's sound is remorseless churning, layers of object-jostling piled onto overheated electric sizzle. “Seductive Distress” is a set of five .. pieces. It's well recorded and legible despite almost uniform volume and density across nearly 50 minutes. The first two tracks remind me of Ryan Bloomer or Black Leather Jesus, muscular unremitting turbulence like balls of hot lava in a giant clothes dryer. At the midpoint of the album, Purse shows his hand a bit… turns out, it's got a contact mic in it. He pulls back slightly for some feedback and quick breath, then it's right back into the fray. Another avalanche of hot dirt roils unabated for the remainder of “Seductive” s runtime. The real beast is the fourth track, the loudest and ugliest of the set, a bit wilder in pacing and inten sity than its four brothers. The final track has some surprising bass depth-charges… which highlight the relative dearth of lower frequencies that came before it but are still a nice detail.

artist: Unsustainable Social Condition 

label: Troniks