/Psychedelia, Fuzz pop, No
Wave, Alternative rock, Avant-rock, Experimental rock, Rhythmic noise, Black
metal/
Comment: this album includes 2 issues by two different musical groups, the
first of them providing exulting psych-pop and fine fuzz pop numbers. Indeed, it
is a way of how one proper rock band should sound being influenced by sweet and
tears of black blues guys. Although Kent State`s aesthetics is otherworldly beautiful
it seem rather be influenced by gloomy locations worldwide, for instance, Death
Valley, which locates quite close to their home city Los Angeles (though I can
remember for the band`s frontman Nicholas Vance is/was closely bound to
Baltimore either). At The Heart Of The World reveals something fairly gorgonizing
because of changing those aforementioned spherical guitar harmonies for truly silly,
angular noise structures full of violent screaming and abrasive feeling of
angst. To perceive contrast by outpacing the borderline between those groups is
inevitable. More profoundly, it is a tight mix of rhythmical noises, No Wave
aesthetics and extreme metal facets. By kindred souls it can be compared with
Black Dice, for instance. This split release is highly recommended!
