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Knut-Wonder-2010-FNT
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- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -
Artist: Knut
Album: Wonder
Label: Conspiracy Records
Playtime: 39:55 min
Genre: Hardcore
URL: http://www.myspace.com/unknut
Rip date: 2010-06-01
Street date: 2010-06-09
Size: 65.94 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 216 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -
Despite gaining a steady fan base and extensive media coverage over the
almost two decade long adventure of their career as well as making it to the
Swiss edition of Trivial Pursuit, Geneva-based quartet Knut (russian word for
“whip”, pronounced “cnoot”) are still occasionally filed away in the popular
Metalcore-drawer. On their fourth full-length the band are now setting the
record straight.
Three years in the making and again culled from myriads of jam sessions,
„Wonder“, released on Hydra Head in the USA and on Conspiracy Records in
Europe, has turned out a monolithic album-statement between explosive
Hardcore, Noise-Rock, Math-Metal and Psychedelia.
It's all about knowing exactly what works and what doesn't, finding a balance
between order and chaos as well as pushing your limits while staying true to
your roots.
Featuring notably more vocals than headline-grabbing predecessor
„Terraformer“ and a more varied and refined production than classic
„Challenger“, „Wonder“ has ended up a daring but entirely organic
tightrope-walk between beguiling atmospherics and brutal aggression, short
up-tempo miniatures and slow-grinding fuzz-epics, hoarsely screamed songs and
drone-driven instrumental passages.
Staying true to Knut's claim that „over-intellectualizing harms the beauty of
creation“, the occasionally complex and intriguingly convoluted structures of
„Wonder“ feel very much as though they had been passionately churned out in a
single, liberating explosion at Serge Morattel's RecStudio in Geneva (where
“Challenger” was recorded back in 2001). 2006's Remix-album „Alter“, on which
various producers from the realms of experimental Sound Art (JK Broadrick, KK
Null, Dдlek, Asmus Tietchens, etc) had transformed some of Knut's cuts beyond
recognition, has certainly not rubbed off on the new material. Instead,
electronics have turned into a trippy, but subtle layer in the equally dense
and spacey sound of the formation. Add to that some of the group's most
immediate riffing and the outcome is a hallucinogenic journey filled with
astoundingly diverse references ranging from Death Metal to the delirious
blend between blissful Ambient and crushing Doom displayed on anthemic closer
„Daily Grind“.
Hypnotically switching between fearful intensity, dreamy interludes and
massively stretched-out excursions, „Wonder“ moulds these influences into an
absorbing, razor sharp and immersive experience. Knut have found their true
voice after a trio of releases dedicated to carving out different aspects of
their style. For a band who, at one point, felt they'd already said
everything there was to say, that's a pretty powerful statement indeed.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Leet ( 3:19)
02. Damned Extroverts ( 1:55)
03. Suckers ( 2:12)
04. Calamity ( 1:43)
05. Ultralight Backpacking ( 6:41)
06. Segue 1 ( 1:39)
07. Fast Forward Bastard ( 3:20)
08. Lemmings ( 1:53)
09. If We Can't Fly, We'll Take The Boat ( 6:33)
10. Segue 2 ( 2:12)
11. Wonder/Daily Grind ( 8:28)
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