DECAYCAST Track Reviews: Forests 森林 “Disarray” from ‘Idol Collapse’ LP (Left Hand Path, 2018)
Forests 森林 crafts dark, heavy, funky, and occasionally sludgy, a-tonal industrial music for generations spanning many wars and technological shifts, collapses included. On the track “Disarray” of their new 12” LP “Idol Collapse” on the rapidly accelerating San Francisco Left Hand Path imprint, Forests 森林 begin with an ancient howling metal percussion style clamoring as a distressed alarm-style sine wave bleeds your ears into a dark, thudding, hammering bass riff. “Disarray” angrily and violently pounds forward with thudding, unsettling cavernous percussion. An angular, fuzzed out, monotone bass eventually gives breath to distantly haunted chanting/moaning style vocals. Words, and these worlds are unintelligible to my damaged, ramsacked, and now funky bassed-out, puss-filled ears, but the tone of the story tells of an old, abandoned structure who’s walls are being slowly expanded upon by the cavernous reverb, pulsing bass tracks and churning hum of far away synthesizers and mutilated electronics, Forests 森林 will lock you in a room and expand upon its structure through sound, until you lie motionless on the floor of a place that once contained the form, now you have nothing but an old mangled, half erased Front242 tape playing at a third of the speed with twice the intensity and four times the dynamics, whoops that’s actually the Forests 森林 tape i just dubbed as I was laying there gasping for my last breath, i reach for the record to button to replicate these hellish, booming sounds just one more time as my turntable wont fit in this tightly bound coffin. Order the record HERE
– Maniere Zappone
D E C A Y C A S T Magazine 