There are solely a handful of albums that I feel qualify as genuinely scary. You Received’t Get What You Need by Daughters, and Swans To Be Type each instantly come to thoughts. However these data include… let’s say, baggage. I’ve Seen All I Want to See lacks a number of the atmospheric spookiness of To Be Type and the flashes of pop-tinged menace of You Received’t Get What You Need, but it surely makes up for that with unrelenting brutality. It’s not the soundtrack to a slasher movie, it’s essentially the most violent scene within the bleakest horror movie, rendered as blown-out drums and detuned guitar.
The album opens with a studying of Douglas Dunn’s The Kaleidoscope, a poem about being trapped in a cycle of grief, as sparse drums increase arhythmically alongside bursts of noise and a low metallic drone. Because it transitions into the distant shriek of vocalist / guitarist Chip King, “A Lament” sputters in matches and begins because it struggles to take flight.
Good artwork will not be essentially nice artwork.
That units the tone for the document, which is much less a set of songs and extra a relentless monolith erected in tribute to the ability of distortion. And that is the place I admit, I’ve Seen All I Want to See gained’t be for everybody. It’s largely atonal, tracks can mix into one another, and even when the drums decide the tempo up past funeral dirge, the songs really feel weighed down, just like the band is making an attempt to play their manner out of a bathroom.
That’s to not say there aren’t moments of catharsis to be discovered. The Metropolis is Shelled specifically, erupts in direction of its again finish as King’s vocals develop into a Goblin-esque croak over pounding piano chords, delivering one of many few moments of real melodicism (even when it’s buried beneath a skyscraper of fuzz).
Although it’s solely 38 minutes lengthy, at occasions, I’ve Seen All I Have to See can really feel like an endurance train. However, like a marathon, that doesn’t imply it’s not value enduring. There’s magnificence in its brutality. It’s haunting and cruel in the best way that, say, Deliver Her Again is. Good artwork will not be essentially nice artwork.
When you’re in search of a document that conjures horror film vibes with out devolving into camp. One thing that feels genuinely harmful and horrifying, and never simply merely type of spooky, The Physique’s I’ve Seen All I Have to See is what you’re in search of. The document is on the market on Bandcamp and most streaming providers, together with Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube Music, and Spotify.