Indian – ‘From All Purity’

This fifth album from Chicago nihilists Indian is not a comfortable or easy listen – far from it:  it is uncomfortable and unnerving, but at the same time challenging and ultimately satiating in its dankness.

Pulsating rhythms and single chord riffs, ground out against walls of fiercesome fuzziness, build layers of sludgy doom upon foundations of dark grindcore to produce a soundscape that is at the same time repulsive and enveloping, its repugnance matched by its evil beauty, which captivates and hypnotizes you throughout the 40 minutes of this entrancing package.

The stripped back drumming of Bill Bumgardner is cruelly effective in its intense simplicity, while the bass of Ron DeFries booms and growls out the hellish bottom end, over which Dylan O’Toole and Will Lindsay deliver sparse guitar interjections and suitably gruesome vocal disharmonies.

Like a fatal car crash, you cannot help but be captivated by the ugliness of what unfolds before you.

Track list:

Rape / Directional / The Impetus Bleeds / Rhetoric Of No / Clarify / Disambiguation

Recommended listening:  The Impetus Bleeds

‘From All Purity’ is released by Relapse Records on January 17^th in the Benelux, Germany and Finland, and on January 20^th everywhere else.