The press release informs us that all instruments – drums, guitar, baritone, synthesizer and saxophone – were played by Anders himself. For the most part, it sounds like he’s playing them all at once. ‘Dead Clubbing’, a collection of six instrumental tracks that draw on Hana’s experiences in previous bands, which include MoHa! and Ultralyd – is a ramshackle mess of noise, from which occasionally – albeit only very occasionally – moments of greatness emerge when everything comes together.
It appears to begin midway through a track, a wild freeform explosion of overdriven guitar and clattering percussion reminiscent of That Fucking Tank, only without the clearly defined riffage and a much looser, more haphazard style of playing and approach to structure.
‘Viglen’ sounds like a novice band learning to play Kasabian’s ‘Club Foot’ and not doing a very good job of it, and before long everything’s buried in a swirling mass of chaos that morphs into a noisy, psychedelic rock wig-out. Perhaps the album’s highlight, ‘Kunna’ is a heavy, sludgy mess of noise that collapses into formless cacophony, bleeding into the final two tracks, the racketous ‘Kebnekaise’ and ‘Kvænan’.
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Still, even if you can’t dig the music, as an object, a limited-run, single-sided record, with a screen-print applied directly to the non-playing side, and packaged in tri-colour screen-printed PVC sleeve is pretty groovy.
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