Bleep

Dominick Fernow’s Hospital Productions (Prurient, Vatican Shadow) lets loose two monsters of modern harsh noise into the ring, in a prizefighter of a split release. Sending great, black avalanches over clipped dialogue, Japan’s Linekraft and Hospital Productions safe pair of hands Alberich dook it out with their twinned yet lost-at-birth sound, showcasing two distinct yet related traditions and approaches to bone-grinding, world-building noise — one Japanese, the other American.