Small Doses doesn't send a lot of HNW our way, but when they do, we always find it satisfying. Alo Girl's Catharsis is a nearly fifteen minute block of swirling HNW from this Italian artist, the harsh wall pseudonym for Cristiano Renzoni who also runs the Urashima label and is one half of the harsh noise unit An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter. Over the course of this heavily textured wall, Renzoni strafes the surface of "Catharsis" with a constant monsoon blast of crackling high-end distortion and sharp-edged static swirling around in a dense, thickly layered vortex of movement and mass; underneath, deep sublimated bass fluctuations and thick low-end revolve in constant submerged activity, and thunderous deep-earth drones rumble way down in the lower depths. At times, the crackling, crumbling monolith feels as if it's fraying apart and is about to completely break apart, but as it seems to peak out into total static, the sonic inferno once again coalesces into a monstrous roar of mid-range buzz and searing black static. Either high volume or a sturdy set of headphones is recommended to really unlock the sputtering sonic crush that Alo Girl summons on this disc. Renzoni names some classic Japanese harsh noise artists like C.C.C.C. and Incapacitants as key influences on his brand of detailed distorto-chaos, and brings some of the same overwhelming claustrophobia to this work.

The disc comes in a small sleeve printed with high contrast artwork, and is limited to fifty-two copies.