Localman – Purulences

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7.0

• Band:
  Scam
• Duration: 00:32:07
• Available from: 03/14/2025
• Label:

• Throatruriner Records

The Annual Fange album is now a guarantee and, if this review was a tweet, it could be closed by immediately explicit how, even in terms of results, the Breton band is confirmed a certainty.
Going more in detail, it is understood since the start that, despite a path now defined and rather tetragon, with “Purulences” the four French ones still try to insert some research elements. Maybe not such as to shout to the miracle, but still meritorious. In the monolith defined by the electronic drums and with obsessive rhythms, here we find intense slowdowns, with a clear reference to the past more slut than the band (“sand conviction”), but also riffs ascribable to the Death Metal (“Mortes Promeses”, or even more “Grand Guignol”); A novelty that is well married to the industrial crudeness of the whole, and at the same time inserts the sluts in a lot of bands that successfully processes gender definitions. Staying on the theme of the marked industrial/noise dimension, this constant a cornerstone of the sluts touches the peak in the three final songs; “Juste Cruel”, “Languages ​​Foucchues” and “Aux Abais” can be perceived almost like the three dimensions of a desolant and unjustible solid, which at the same time exudes intense sensations. They intertwine in these songs alienation, images of urban and human desolation and a rotten epic sense. Then there is a constant sub -established of feedback, a sort of guiding thread which, if on the one hand makes the overall listening very homogeneously and alienating, gives in certain moments a feeling of profession, and is perhaps the only real limit of a disc that cannot be defined as a step back, but certainly dares – or perhaps simply hurts the ears and soul – a little less than the last two releases of the group.
In short, perhaps the disruptive effect is lost, but not the sense of bewilderment and pain that the news have constantly instilled us in recent years. We perhaps wait for some more efforts, but the promotion remains full.

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