COCO & FIEND FRIEND Indeed CDR (Cold Current) 5.00This mysterious Italian duo drops another dose of weird industrial noise on us, this time issued through the Cold Current imprint. I'm in the dark as to who these people are, and all I know is that they have some kind of connection to the Turgid Animal label, who have released a bunch of releases from the duo. This disc is super limited at only 50 copies, each one is hand numbered and is packaged in a cool green cardstock sleeve that is bound together with the disc itself by a piece of twine. There are four tracks featured here, the longest coming in at over fifteen minutes, and the recordings range from huge slabs of throbbing blackened low-end pulse and glacial electronic dirge, to churning feedback drones and softened smears of subterranean rumbling. Grinding distorted noise is cut up with weird retching vocal sounds that are run through a wall of effects, then explodes into blasts of sputtering and short-circuiting white-noise drone. Demonic glitchscapes give birth to haunting minor key melodies that melt back into the mist of ancient rust and dust motes, damaged industrial rhythms struggle to dig themselves out of the roiling murk and fail, rising up and sinking back into the feedback and grit over and over. The third track "Sure" is pretty amazing, and my favorite here: a nightmarish grinding dirge forged from caustic feedback, apparent death metal roars buried way down in the skree, a pustulent screaming noise dirge that evolves into a lumbering slow-motion machine grind. Ugly, crushing noise from hell. In the end, it all melts down into a vicscous mass of garbled white noise and pitchbent demon voices which segues straight into the final track, a chaotic collage of ultra harsh noise a la Masonna or Merzbow and looped folk guitars.