Genre: Rhythmic Industrial/ Rhythmic Noise

Track Listing:

01 [ko-mor-bid]
02 Circling the Drain
03 How You Forget
04 Down In The Earth
05 Slow Chatter
06 High Order Harmonic
07 Grinderscraper
08 Dischordant Live mix
09 The Turning
10 A Helpful Bit of Advice [feat. It-Clings]
11 Moment Already Gone
12 Slow Chatter [Melt]
13 Stoneface
14 Automatic Nation [PD vs Alessandro Pacciani]

    
I’m sure many of you are already familiar with this band, a branchild of Justin Brink, coming from USA and its unique sound, which certainly can be recognised among many other records. In case you are not, then Pneumatic Detach was given a start back in 2001 with a CDR “Experiments in Psychosis” and has a wide discography counting ten releases, many of them are CDRs and limited editions. [ko-mor-bid] is a limited edition as well – 300 copies were issued to be sent out to different corners of the world.

What does another album bring us? It brings us more atmosphere, partly somewhat calming elements, if I may say so, and together with that much more contrast, with the rhythmic structures becoming heavier and more complex. The sound itself became more atmospheric and continuous thanks to the backgrounds that enriched the sound and made it less dry. Interesting thing is that there’s a tempo indicated for each track on this album and the range is really wide according to those numbers, however, many of the tracks stay either near the extreme points of this range or quite in the middle: 72 BPM to 220 BPM. Anyways, even if an ordinary listener is not really interested in tempo, it is a very useful feature for the djs and I cannot help mentioning it.

However, all the violence and agression of the past albums stayed on their place, the sound is still uncompromising, raw, blasting and driving crazy, bringing massive and personal destruction in the form of a deadly head ache. From time to time the sound of various noises and distorted beats, driving across your ears there and back, remind me of Imminent, althought the last one is kind of less complicated, more straightforward being as violent. This CD features tape recordings on tracks 1-3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13 made by Jessica Hosman, that appeared on [vis-ce-ra] as well. If I had to compare the sound with moves of the human body, I would compare the music with abrupt, robotic, technoid moves and twitching.
   
Rhythmic Noise is the best phrase to characterize the music of Pneumatic Detach . It is noise and it is rhythmic. There’s much gore in this music, much chaos which forms its own order. As I mentioned earlier, the background became more atmospheric and the tracks generally became more multilayered, but there’re still those straight blasting anxious beats that remind a burst of machine gun fire. Although I played different PC shooters very long ago last time, I guess the atmosphere of the record fits really well in the games of that kind.