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Blood
Music is Simon Pomery, a multi-instrumentalist with a nice line in
moody coldwave cut with ugly, blackened post-punk and industrial.
Released on Powell’s Diagonal label, his self-titled debut EP’s calling
card is its unconventional structure: A1 and B1 are about eight and
seven minutes long respectively, A2 and B2 both 47-second shadows of the
longer tracks.Having
established the label with a brace of his own killer 12”s, Powell opens
up the Diagonal books to welcome in Blood Music, a band led by Londoner
Simon Pomery. ‘Rare Earth Project’ is incantatory, industrial-tinged
rock, plain and simple, driven by rolling hellhound toms and toxic
clouds of feedback – think Factory Floor crossbred with Shellac,
building to a hypnotic climax suggestive of Faust or Can at their most
committedly deranged.
‘Speak Like Violence’’s grungey guitar squall and
dead-eyed motorik momentum amount to a straight-up tribute to A Thousand
Leaves-era Sonic Youth, Pomery’s sneered vocal oddly Kim Gordon-esque,
before unravelling into a thunderous, atavistic percussion mantra of
real hallucinatory clout, live kit fills raging against sequenced lines
in a manner reminiscent of Powell’s own shunting technobilly drum-funk.
Two short drone pieces round out a bold and unexpected 12” for Diagonal.
