What I usually associate with Ramleh is an unstoppable barrage of power electronics and barked vocal eruptions. Which is exactly what we’ve got here. This does not disappoint. Catching them live with Godflesh a few years ago literally (and physically) blew me away. I am, however, pleasantly surprised by the static, choppy, experimental nature of how 31/5/1962 – 1982 starts off, which leads into a much more digestible forty minutes or so than the more Vomir-like facebash of powerful noise walls. What is on play here seems like more fun experimentation with delays, loops, basic distortions and pulsating rhythms, until the vocals kick in and destroy everything, at least.
It does eventually meander into the dangerous, volatile territory of barked vocal blurs and mental sheets of noise attacks with the self-titled track, “Ramleh” and also “Deathtoll”, but on “Throatsuck” for example, the vocals are used in a much more atmospheric approach, almost like another "instrument", if you could call it that. Despairing shit.
An apparent power electronics classic, dodgy album art or no.
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