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.Kotimaista Squamataa voi pitää lähinnä taidenoisena. Näin siksi, että heidän hälynsä on selkeästi tehty rakenteelliseksi suoran voiman kustannuksella. Se on siis tarkoituksellisesti ohuempaa ja diskanttisempaa kuin hälylevyt yleensä. Rakennepuolella sitten löytyykin onneksi vastinetta koko rahalla. At Home With Your Kids on tehty taitavalla rytmityksellä, niin jatkumollisesti kuin kappalesisällöllisestikin. Se on täynnä hyviä palasia, jotka muodostavat hyviä kokonaisuuksia. Osa hälystä on selvän koneellista, osa komean kaikuisaa metalliromumelua. Edellisistä erityisen hyvin toimii hajotettavaa rytmiä käyttävä Kitchen 2, jälkimmäisistä Children's Room 1.
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Artisti:
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Hemmetin hyvä
kiekko. Jiituomas |
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The Finnish band Squamata can be best described
as art-noise. This is due to the way they use noise itself: it is obvious
that the band has made a choice to focus on structure, at the expense
of raw power. Thus the material is intentionally thinner, more high-frequency
than noise albums in general. But what's lost in force is easily made
up by the compositional side. At Home With Your Kids has been constructed
with a very clever rhythmic structure in mind, on the level of both single
tracks and general continuity. It is full of good parts that form great
wholes. Some of the noises are clearly machine-based, others are made
of impressively echoing metal junk stuff. Kitchen 2, which
uses a break-down rhythm is an extremely well running example of the former
style, and Children's Room 1 a likewise great example of
the latter.
Even the noise-saturate piano near the end of the album fits into this series of surreal scenes well. This is definitely not a record filled with "harsh" or "pure, unadulterated" noise, but a work of smart, composed-sounding noise. It nevertheless does not slip toward neighboring genres, despite having pieces reminiscent of Power Electronics, rhythmic noise or noise ambient. There's a price to pay for all of this, though: at no point does the noise really carry its listeners with it. It is rather stuff that gets observed, like a performance. This problem could of course be fixed with the use of compression, but that would steal something essential from the structures. The artists have known what they want out of their material, and that's just as it should be. A damn good album. Jiituomas |