Benefactor is the second album by Jeremy Moore's band Zero Swann who are one of the noisiest most discordant sounding rackets I've heard in a good while. The album was recorded by Jeremy Moore at S.V. Studios in Washington DC. You may know Jeremy from his other bands including Zabus and Gorazde.
The album opens with the cacophony industrial noise intro to Benefactor, a tune sort of emerges from the malaise, just before the reverbed and distorted Mark E. Smith style vocals come in to mutter about ascendancy of psychosis, within the distorted toxic sound realm.
The albums main single Grave Wax Horticulture isn't exactly a floor filler, dark distended vocals about abusive manipulations amongst a wall of clattered percussion, feeling like metal sheets being scraped and smashed beside a trudging bass crawling inside your brain.
Theatre Of Spectral Symphony takes the ideals of The Velvet Undergrounds symphony of sound exploding plastic inevitable wall of feedback, distortion and ear drum shattering cacophony to the furthest extremes Jeremy Moore can manage, this is not music to sing or whistle along with, total annihilation of melody seems to be a core attribute to what's being attempted here.
The Prismal Seed is fracturing minds and shattering thoughts, through dark tonalities transfixed by the madness and shambolic crazed realities of life in Washington DC in the mid 2020's, they clearly hope to be booked to headline the Kennedy Centre, even if this doesn't come with an easy to learn set of dance moves, but instead has wailing walls of suppurating feedback.
Light Upon Longing comes perilously close to having an actual tune, that gets destroyed by the miasma of shattering notes and palpitations set against the morning lights sorrowful feelings, this feels like having teeth extracted with no pain meds while being strafed by crazed guitar shards.
Post Mortem Bricolage a thumping beat of disarray staring into your dark soul, desperation can never leave them, guitars howl with desperation to find a recognisable riff, losing the battle to infinite cacophony.
Anagrams For Agnosia or agonies of sound miasmically mutilating your mind, no sign of absolution or relief available any time soon, you will be cursed to hear this over and over on repeat, while watching highlights of Hegseth's media videos while clamped into a torture chair, trying to remember why you should care about anything he does, twisted destruction surrounds and overwhelms you.
The album concludes with Phaneron that is all consuming noise assault to shatter perspectives, creating miasmic fears and tribulations within a wall of suppurating noise and nastiness, sounding like guns are shooting arcs of noise deep into your cerebral cortex, changing the course of how you perceive anything and everything.
Find out more at https://zeroswann.bandcamp.com/album/benefactor
