Genre: Industrial / Electronic / Experimental / Noise

David Thrussell joins the fray once again with this fine, if somewhat biased, offering.

The first track is the obligatory IMCC dialogue introduction by "Dr. Jonathan Cavendish" explaining the purpose, source, and serving size of the release. Somewhat dissapointing being 20% of the release, it sets the stage for the madness that follows. Here we learn that the entire EP is comprised of field recordings from every aspect of meat processing,from the slaughterhouse to the chopping block in your kitchen.

Track two, or "First Movement", begins as a grating hum that builds into the tortured screams of cattle overlayed with an alternately pulsing and grinding lanscape of pain. Three minutes after the subtle atmospherics and chainsaws, a discernable rythm emerges just in time to die an uninspired death at the end of the song.

The listener is confronted with what would seem to be the Pig Song on the fourth track entitled, oddly: "Second Movement (Choirs of Cattle)" which is easily the most accessable piece on the EP. Disjointed beats backed with loopy, swishy, noises and slashed up Deliverance-sounds screeching and echoing from the throats of pigs (cows?) make this fine dining for the bloody-minded. That is, until it lulls you into a false feeling of quiet solitude before picking up into the fourth piece.

"Movement Three (Fields of Flesh)" Here we find ourselves assaulted by chaotic beats of the chunky nature that, while keeping time, do nothing to further the cause of traditional music or structure. After five minutes of noise-damage, the flies arrive. They hum and buzz about, landing to feast, disturbed only by the occasional shrieks of pain from some form of livestock or other.

We now find ourselves in the "Fourth Movement (The Silent Abattoir)" which begins with a constant hum resembling the aforementioned flies with a few liquid-like noises shot through with slurpy vacuum sounds. The chaos builds over six minutes with really no nod to dance-music or anything more than a collage of all the previous animal screams and saws and flies and slurps found scattered about the rest of the EP.

A challenging listen for most, I'd guess. As a novelty release I found it quite enjoyable for just under half an hour of play time.