Thing of the Day
Flesh Eating Foundation: 'If it ain't broke..."
December 20th 2010
FLESH EATING FOUNDATION – Dead Shall Rise (Rebco) – From the Midlands (of England) come Flesh Eating Foundation with more of their self-styled electro punk. This aggressive crew have a new album out as either a free download or as a hand packaged piece of art with “genuine graveyard detritus and artwork photos” – or so it says here (on this press release that came with the promo copy that has no graveyard detritus or anything besides a nice professional looking clean-cut slip wallet) Hope they haven’t been robbing graves or anything too naughty while they’re busy eating flesh and what have you…
The Flesh Eating Foundation rule seems to be, “if it ain’t broke then
break it”. They’re not really breaking things, though, they’re making
some kind of industrial electro goth noise with things, a stew of
aggressive bleeps and pulses, of crashes and arcing machine sparks that
weave around the bleak bitter dark vocals and the all gone wrong
disappointments of life… Gloomy industrial goth with a welcome sense of
tuneful melody and not a million miles away from our old friends Global
Noise Attack. Some of it is very very (very) gloomy, some of it bleeps
along in a more aggressively positive kind of manner – a positive
manner even if he is singing about not knowing why he’s still here.
They declare that “those looking for inspiration and enlightenment should look elsewhere…”, I don’t know about that, there is a rather healthy positiveness in their bleak outlook and their distorted digitalness.. Sure, it may be home-made, broken-machine-driven music made on dying computers by gloomy people who sound like cynical life is getting to them. But it sounds like it might be a good thing they’re making music or they’d probably be sitting in some very dark corner in a soup of serious depression, but hey…. And hang on a moment, this bit right now, this is a rather uplifting instrumental passage, sounding quite like a melodically industrial flavoured Jean-Michel Jarre or a slightly heavier Tangerine Dream. And when those vocals do kick in then anger is very much an energy - gloomy and doomy yes, but this is alive and kicking up a storm of positive black noise.
Flesh
Eating Foundation have their chosen machine-driven industrial goth
sound rather together. Home made and lo-fi does not mean bad quality or
some kind of cheapskate operation; the Foundation have their collective
shit and their driving sound very much together. And yes, you might
just find it to be some kind of positive inspiration despite what they
say – well, if you want to positively stew in a black machine-driven
pot of negative darkness and flesh eating all gone wrong graveyard
detritus waiting for the slow death of decency, then very positive
indeed… Anyone want to come pick some flowers?
More from www.flesheatingfoundation.co.uk
