Music Reviews

Artist: Naevus/Knifeladder
Title: Document Three
Format: CD
Label: Terra Fria (@)
Rated: *****
"Document Three" features London based bands Naevus and Knifeladder. Both provided three tracks each on this 500 limited edition copies on cd in a PVC black box. Naevus is a dark neo-folk trio who opens the cd with their cover version of "Less Queer", a comedic murder ballad by American singer/songwriter David E. Williams. The song is very well arranged for acoustic guitar, accordion and a swifty deep dark bassline. The second track "The Devil", which is my best favorite, is a narrative tale telling about half remembered drunken events. The lyrics had me tripping so hard, I couldn't get the song out of my head.

Knifeladder is an industial three piece band who have an electronic old school sound that's more experimental and noise like with tribal rhythmic that's more sinister with vocals. Track "Retina (Last Gasp Edit)" starts off with a noise feel then breaks down to a post-punk industrial that have a feedback bass. "Oblivion (Anti-Valium remix)" sets the standard ground of having a experimental electronic noise that have a sense of annihilation in despair to chaos with harsh vocals. Knifeladder brings the degree of intensity and many experimentations to their music that will interest industrial fans.


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