Almost Mint
Holy Fuck - Deleter [HF 001 USA 2020 24-Bit FLAC] In the never ending battle of music versus noise in amongst an industry's infatuation with applying compressed digital audio onto vinyl, I again raise the case for preserving the eardrums of a generation. What follows is a really good album, it would be even better without compression & limiting. The compact disc is deafening, the vinyl version is almost perfect. Arriving at a moment where attention spans are short and anxieties are publicly exhumed on social media, Deleter - the fifth album by noisy Canadians Holy Fuck’s is a defiantly full-bodied affair. Polyrhythmic and pleasure-focused, Deleter sees the quartet seamlessly fuse the gauzy drive of dreamy hypnotic techno and deep house’s dreamy ineffability, expertly blending purring motorik percussion with the sort of foggy synthetic fizz, fudge and twang they have borrowed for all their fifteen years. Holy Fuck do not record bedroom electronica on laptops, this stuff is ...