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OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD - Stillborn Plague Angels

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Dekorder 030 Release Year: 2009 Note: following project of BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL with debut album ! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €12.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Der Neuseeländer Campbell Kneale ist ein Füllhorn phantasievoller Namen und Titel. Viele kennen ihn als Birchville Cat Motel, einige als Black Boned Angel. Jetzt nennt er sich OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD und sein erstes Statement als ‚Liebe, zu groß für die Welt‘ Stillborn Plague Angels (Dekorder 030, LP), totgeborene Engel der Pest. Aber Hallo. Die A-Seite enthält zudem das schöne Paradoxon ‚Pink Hollow Paradise‘, die B-Seite füllt das fantastische ‚Chinese Emperors and The Army of Eternity Over Prehistoric Texas‘. Was dann über einen hereinbricht, wie ein Wind vom Paradiese her oder eine kaiserliche Reiterarmee der Urzeit, ist ein gigantisches Gitarrenbeben aus schwirrenden und rüttelnden Saiten, eine eisenhaltige Folge von Schreien, ein rauschendes AAAAAAAAAHHHH, lang gezogen und in allen Molekülen vibrierend, ein Dröhnen wie eine Phalanx rasender Banalitätsfresser, die nur Tabula rasa hinterlassen soweit das Auge reicht. Das Ganze hat aber nichts eigentlich Brachiales oder gar Nihilistisches an sich. Wenn man so starrt und staunt, hört man sogar etwas Melodisches im Auf und Ab der brausenden Wellen." [Bad Alchemy] "The gates of Birchville Cat Motel crack, creak wide, and crash, unleashing a gush of soul-fried bleakness and love-damage stained with a defiantly metallic pose. Thats 'METALLIC... as in, has the surface qualities of metal' not 'METAL... as in, has the surface qualities of Metallica'... step back you fucking freaks. Although the broken bricks of BCM are still plain to see amid the burning wreck and ruin, 'Stillborn Plague Angels' represents the first fully formed sentence in a new chapter of Campbell Kneale's ongoing tome of star-spangled, psychedelic, noise-OM. Cholesterol-shaving guitar peeks over the trench to survey an adrenalised landscape of endless roaring catastrophy... Everything louder than everything else! Our Love Will Destroy The World is the new one-man project by New Zealander Campbell Kneale after disbanding BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL. In the past Kneale has released albums on Ecstatic Peace, Corpus Hermeticum, Last Visible Dog, Conspiracy and his own Celebrate Psi Phenomena label. He has colllaborated with Lee Ranaldo, Neil Campbell, Bruce Russel, John Olson (Wolf Eyes), Yellow Swans, has toured throughout Japan, Europe, America and Australia and also records und the names Black Boned Angel and Ming. "Stillborn Plague Angels" is the debut LP by this new project." [label info] "For those of you who haven't heard, Birchville Cat Motel is no more. Similarly, BCM mainman Campbell Kneale has also decided to close up shop on his long running Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label. But fear not, 'tis not the end, merely a new beginning. Taking on the name of a recent Birchville record, Kneale will be henceforth known as Our Love Will Destroy The World. Quite emo actually, but then BCM was always pretty emo stuff, especially in the drone / dirge / noise field. And if you throw on the B side of this the debut offering from the newly christened OLWDTW, it may seem to you like has changed. Another glorious BCM style sprawl of looped guitars and processed melodies, layered textures, swooping backwards pulsations, tangled bits of guitar and fragmented chunks of soft noise all blurred and smeared into a gorgeous woozy dreamy expanse of soft focus free noise bliss, would have fit just fine on any of the recent BCM records, if anything, it's slightly more pretty. But flip the record over, and you'll see that maybe everything has changed after all. A weird nineties style Warp Records groove, all skittery robotic funk, with warped gurgly basslines, but also some weirdly out of place strummed acoustic guitars, all buried beneath constantly shifting layers of looped and processed sounds. A bizarre mashup of blissy free folk and alien dancefloor groove that sort of works. Will definitely hit the spot for folks who have been digging the dancier sounds coming out of the Astral Social Club camp. Curious to hear where Kneale takes his Love next. And as is the case with many a 7” single, no indication as to whether it's meant to be played on 33 rpm or 45, we're going with 33, sound a bit more 'right' that way, but you never know, at 45, one side gets all high end and Sunroof!-y, while the other gets manic and spastic and almost skweee-like. Pick your poison." [Aquarius Records review] www.dekorder.de