Dalek Gutter Tactics Review

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Dalek gutter tactics review.

It has been two years since abandoned language the last release by dälek and not much has changed. This is demonstrated well on gutter tactics his newest release. The production on most of these songs is fantastic from the stand up bass intro of a collection of miserable thoughts laced with wit to the percussive attack of los macheteros which recalls both shotgun blasts and heavy machinery an appropriate juxtaposition for an album primarily concerned with violence and which. Gutter tactics thick doom sound that defined dälek s approach has now turned back and smothered any attempt at a unique change.

Discover releases reviews credits songs and more about dälek gutter tactics at discogs. Instrumentally gutter tactics shares much in common with the droning shoegaze of my bloody valentine and the distorted orchestration of mono due to live overdubs provided by various musicians ushered from dälek s deadverse record label into his newly built studio. Cryptic raps are submerged in drones and sheets of static. Gutter tactics flow and overall rhymes pale in comparison to those found in abandoned language it is as if gutter tactics thick doom sound that defined dälek s approach has now turned back and smothered any attempt at a unique change.

Aptly titled the album has a dark disorienting and toxic vibe. Gutter tactics dalek dã lek make post apocalypse music crumbling building blocks standing like crooked broken teeth noxious sludge oozing from drain pipes scorched asphalt and concrete melted into piles of slag. This album will more likely appeal to fans of early industrial drone sludge doom metal and dark ambient music than it will appeal to fans of the current hip hop establishment. Dalek is like a fine beer it is an acquired taste but once you get past that part it is delicious.

And gutter tactics finds oktopus beefing up his sound into a well oiled battering ram. This aside gutter tactics is an intense powerful and highly intelligent rap disc that seems to look to past efforts for inspiration while expanding upon dalek s sonic arsenal. Beats are slowed until they splinter. If you don t already know their style mc and producer duo dalek are all about dark electronica.

Short phrases are spat out like beats and long samples heckle you about the abuses of power and our complicity.