The quartet
from Wales SPIDER KITTEN works in a rather free and experimental atmosphere.
Melting different genders, instruments, and influences they seek their own
identity that corresponds to the outer environment. They can offer you three
minutes long songs based in the vintage culture, as well as more than half
and hour long sludge wastes. As well as everything between these two options.
The verbose
inspired till hystery press kit convices me only in this that from two years
nothing happens with the band, except its trip to US. Undergroove Records are
not the traditional label of SPIDER
KITTEN. The EP „Behold Mountain.
Hail Sea. Venerate Sky. Bow Before Tree.“ is a record of a studio jam inspired from casual
ideas.
With no doubt
the whole material is full of sludge ideas. The first track (in the varian we
receive the EP) carries also the stoner metal mood of the English music
tradition of the 70es. The long three
act composition that seems basis for this CD is enriched with different sound
adds of a many-sided landscape. Wales folk motives are pressed by sludge
sound. The song suffocates in a guest appearance of a violoncellist to revive in an aggressive sludge metal part
with spoken outroduction. The final track is dominated by dynamics, echo in the
vocals, and contrasting microphonics. The extended high singing touches the
early Ozzy but it is more as an experiment over a lonely motive.
The
ЕР is under the level of its pretension. The artwork is also an
early working draft of an idea with good potentiality. Of course the release
is interesting for the researchers of the territories of the band, as well as
for some of the fans of MELVINS, KYUSS, RUSH.
