There are solely a handful of albums that I feel qualify as genuinely scary. You Gained’t Get What You Need by Daughters, and Swans To Be Variety each instantly come to thoughts. However these information include… let’s say, baggage. I’ve Seen All I Want to See lacks a number of the atmospheric spookiness of To Be Variety and the flashes of pop-tinged menace of You Gained’t Get What You Need, however it 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 shouldn’t be essentially nice artwork.
That units the tone for the report, 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 attempting to play their method 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 the direction of its again finish as King’s vocals change into a Goblin-esque croak over pounding piano chords, delivering one of many few moments of real melodicism (even when it’s buried underneath a skyscraper of fuzz).
Regardless that it’s solely 38 minutes lengthy, at instances, I’ve Seen All I Must See can really feel like an endurance train. However, like a marathon, that doesn’t imply it’s not value enduring. There may be magnificence in its brutality. It’s haunting and harsh in the way in which that, say, Convey Her Again is. Good artwork shouldn’t be essentially nice artwork.
If you happen to’re searching for a report that conjures horror film vibes with out devolving into camp. One thing that feels genuinely harmful and scary, and never simply merely type of spooky, The Physique’s I’ve Seen All I Must See is what you’re searching for. The report is obtainable on Bandcamp and most streaming companies, together with Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube Music, and Spotify.