Drill - The Last Taboo Of America (Album)

Saturate

First things first I didn't enjoy this record but then it's just not my bag, i've been listening to it over and over trying to take something positive from it but it's just not doing it for me. So though this will appeal to many folk who love their alternative/industrial/metal I can't find a great deal to take from it, sorry Drill, but i'll try and play fair here goes.

Initially i'm checking my CD player thinking that it's buggered or that the CD is having some sort of fit in protest but no it turns out that opening track 'Plan Dalet' is a stream of warped atmospherics seemingly designed to disorientate. For 1mins 12secs it's looped over and I for one reach for the skip button, I can't be arsed with it and it serves no purpose here other than to annoy and grate.

'Pitmanic' starts rather thunderously but then continues on a single path of repetitiveness till the strained vocals make an appearance, it hits it's mark in terms of what it wants to be and that appears to me to be some form of industrial drone music which though ain't working for me i'm sure will enthrall others. However, I can see it being quite a thrilling live performance it's bass and guitars no doubt doubling in speed on the stage.

Any track lasting 15mins 46secs is going to have to strive to really keep a-hold on their listener and produce something that keeps their ear glued to the speakers. 'Diaspora' whines and screeches lurching through more droning into riffs and blasting beats. Lyrically it's hard to comprehend what's taking place here but the music more than holds itself but only for so long, eventually slowing down and diverting the track into another sonic landscape that could have been cut as in truth it seems a bit prog and unnecessary.

Small noise interlude 'Deir Yassin' is followed by a Stripped Repeats Remix of 'Pitmanic' that if anything puts more emphasis on the pounding, driving beats of the original it's more of a hardcore version. Finally there is title track 'The Last Taboo Of America' that again is all atmosphere and space odyssey-ish that is overlapped with some form of speech before culminating in mash of car crash effects.

I'll re-iterate this album simply wasn't for me but fans of bands like Tool or Slint will no doubt find much to identify with here. For what this band are aiming to achieve they seem to be on their way with their sound but I just couldn't bring myself to listen to it anymore without in the very least chewing my fingers to pieces.

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