DOWNLOAD: Porn Antler - and the Infinite Sadness

Porn Antler
and the Infinite Sadness
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Do not know anything about this artist. Seen the name once, somewhere ethereal - source not remembered, unaccountable, could be a figment of my imagination. Then All Everyone posted this up for D/L. The Last.fm is totally blank other than my messy comment and feverishly excitable number of plays; there's the mini artist description I threw up which I took off the Bandcamp - itself a floating phrase of abstract meaninglessness.  So there's no real background to this, other than the backdrop of blackened occult electro noise that has blanketed the landscape of the whole year; Witch House this very much is.  All the tracks of this little 4-track demo/release are highlights, they're almost all under 3 minutes long with the exception of R&B distorting closer Hyperuniverse I (for Miguel Alcubierre Moya).  I don't know the unblemished face of the original, but I'm pretty sure it's mother wouldn't recognise it here either, so we're all looking at it wide eyed with jaws on the floor, but for different reasons.  The true peak of this is Jesus and Mary Dildo which comes on like a nasty stalker, its midpaced- thudding beat an ominously encroaching doom upon which hunting horns jeer with spiteful menace, overly fuzzed guitars howling hot breath into the cold air.  You get the idea from the track title there that there's some kind of piss taking or cultural undermining at play here - the album title is surely an amputated version of the Smashing Pumpkins opus, reduced to the essential detail of pure tragedy over navel gazing introspection. It's one minor sidestreet of the genre I really like; the unprecious disrespectful kneecapping of idols.  And I think that's the Predator in the cover art.  Excellent stuff.