Wrekmeister Harmonies – You’ve
Always Meant So Much To Me (Thrill Jockey
LP
10 June 2013
This is an
interesting beast if ever I heard one proving my theory that ‘everything
deserves at least one listen’. It would
be tempting, if you’re not a fan of the drone genre to stop listening to You’ve
Always Meant So Much To Me after nine or ten minutes but given slightly longer
this grows into something rather wonderful.
The piece
was written to accompany a film that Robinson had shot in the desert of Joshua
Tree and the Tasmanian forests. It was recorded live in Chicago at the Museum
of Contemporary Art and included avant garde and balck metal artists such as
Bruce Lamont (Yakuza), Jef Whitehead (Leviathan) and Nachmystium (Andrew
Markuszewski).
What is a
triumph is the slow and gradual progression of the track from almost monotone
monotony to funeral doom in little over thirty-eight minutes. The drone grows and grows into an enormous
wall of distorted sound of crashing drums and screams before gradually slowing
again and continuing with synthesized sounds as the moaning voices fall into
the pit of Hell from whence they came.
A plucked
Harp and orchestrals enter and You’ve Always Meant So Much to Me fades away
into nothingness leaving your ears slightly confused as the big sounds seem to
continue to resonate.
It’s an
incredibly emotional and intelligent piece of work and one that fully deserves
to be allowed to be listened to in its entirety, and, yet another brave release
from those clever people at Thrill Jockey Records. It’s not the sort of thing you’d play to your
Grandma, but then again, would you really want to share something like this?
8/10
Links
Published on Louder Than War 8/06/13 - here
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