Psychic Stress Soundtracks
Joe Colley
| Available Formats | No. of Tracks | Price | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Download Album (mp3) | 5 tracks | £3.75 | ||
| Download Album (flac) | 5 tracks | £3.75 | ||
| Download Album (wav) | 5 tracks | £3.75 | ||
| Download individual tracks | N/A | from £0.75 |
Joe Colley - Psychic Stress Soundtracks
Failure, self-loathing and abject monstrosity continue unabated as the primary themes for Joe Colley's electro-shock minimalism. as with his previous, equally impressive Desperate Attempts At Beauty, he shifts through a seemingly endless supply of antiquated electric gear and forces these dilapidated machines to grind, crush, whirl and twist under conditions they were not originally designed for. On Psychic Stress Soundtracks, Colley astutely transcribes the machines' smouldering march to oblivion, granting them the emphatic capacity for pain and the recognition of existential despair. The ozone smell of melting circuity lingers above the nervous Geiger counter clicks and toxic hums of his eelectric dynamos. Colley is a gifted, if sometimes under-appreciated composer whose successes rely upon hte manifestation of the paradox of building something extraordinary out of junk. Jim Haynes THE WIRE (UK)
Reviews
'For those who gave up too soon', it says on the cover, and I wonder who they are, as Joe Colley doesn't tell us. Over the years, Colley came from a background in industrial music under the banner of Crawl Unit and his own Povertech label, but since more recent times, he solely uses his own name. Maybe those who gave up too soon as those who couldn't stand his 'Psychic Stress Soundtracks'? Music made to work on the senses aren't a new thing since John Duncan's 'Stress Chamber' or Mark Bain's similar container. But on a CD one might be a bit lost as to the psychic effects. Colley offers five pieces of extreme sound frequencies, with very high end and low end sounds, chopped up into small rhythms and argumented with larger chunks of more ongoing sounds and crackles of toys being smashed with a contactmicrophone. It's a very physical soundtrack, as the music goes from soft to quite loud all the time. Maybe Colley's soundtrack is meant to be used at Guatanamo Bay (which, as I recently saw on TV uses 'Subhuman' by Throbbing Gristle in their training program - that wouldn't crack me)? Played through headphones on a loud volume and on repeat for a couple of hours, this would maybe crack the faint at heart. Maybe Colley makes a comment on that? His music is definitely the missing link between die-hard noise and a much more intelligent approach to sound and that alone makes this into a well-enjoyable release. Excellent noise - especially when not played under duress. (FdW) VITAL.(NL)
Tracklisting
Download Album (AFRO2029DD)
- Joe Colley - Future Screaming
- Joe Colley - Rehearsal for Highspeed Patalysis
- Joe Colley - All of Us Are Monsters And All Of Us Think the Others Are Monsters
- Joe Colley - Melody of Failure
- Joe Colley - Overgrown (At Last)
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