Genre: Noise / Power Electronics / Experimental

01 Got You
02 BAM Tale
03 I Don’t Need Your Right
04 Selfburners
05 Holy 97
06 Forgot (News?)
07 Violent Fairytale
08 The Way I Like It
09 Sickness
10 Sick In Your Mind (original by Klinik)
11 Hidden Track

Stpocold is a russian experimental project, brought by two people - Swill Klitch and Ips Klitch as their myspace page states, active since 2007. Swill Klitch is also known as a founder of other projects – Instant Movie Combinations active since 2006 and Indu Mezu known from 2004 (however as I read an idea of IMC appeared around 1998-1999). Stpocold took part on two compilations - Rus Zud 7 and Rush For Black Celebration and on one split – with Daruin and Torturing Nurse, a harsh noise band from China, issued on Abgurd. “What Happened Outside” became Stpocold’s first full length album, released on Russian label – Misfake Studios, which also issued albums of Indu Mezu and Instant Movie Combinations alongside with Algol).

This CD comes in a special nature-friendly pleasant to touch blueish grey cardbox with black print on it and a small black’n’white “booklet” inside, giving contacts info, info about the band and a few pictures some of which are really difficult to identify: a picture of a family on a sofa, a picture of a window turned upside down..Each cardbox is hand-numbered, the edition of this CD is limited to 57 copies only.

No matter what people say about noise and power electronics, claiming them to be monotonous, ever repetitive, non-original and generally uninteresting. There’re certain projects that prove to be different – it is experimental: noise with a human touch, an attempt to combine music and anti-music, sometimes followed by adding rhythmic structures (and turning in – rhythmically - minimal but multilayered, violent and abrasive rhythmic industrial music), consisting not only from the “drumsound” of different kinds like pulsating synthetic beats, scratches and noises, but also looped samples, all this flavoured with female voice (which on the second track sounded as if it was going to sing as women in Indian movies do) and male declamations. Despite the thing Stpocold is a noise project, it is very melodical in the very sense of this word. Behind the thick wall of sound one can hear a piano melody breaking its way through noises and distorted vocals in a monotonous, disharmonic, insensitive manner.

During the listening you get a feeling of immersion and sometimes a feeling of alien civilization’s presence, like you’re travelling somewhere into the other worlds that may sometimes look strange, mysterious and even hostile, you catch the waves of their radio transmissions and hear their addle speech. Sometimes sound reminds a huge technoid organism functionating (especially track nine called Sickness), despite the female voice that appears from time to time. The track is multilayered, saturated with noise samples, some of which give a hint on a melodical components, which all together create the needed atmosphere.

The tenth track – Sick In Your Mind – is a noisy cover track of the one by Klinik (personally I enjoyed it). It is created in the same vein as the album itself and organically and quite appropriately supplements the album.

There’s one more track, that is not mentioned in a tracklist. It sounds really strange and even more strange for the person who understands what is being sung and know the song itself. It is a distorted variant of a children song about a small grey baby-goat J But it sounds madly, like a song from a mad circus or the one in horror movies where the main character enters the room that once was nursery, a room for the kid that was killed times ago.