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| 4.0 excellent | Alabaster Jones | July 12th 16 |
Silent Cicada was the alias of Nick Shutter during his earliest forays into harsh noise. A prolific artist, Shutter released many projects under the name, two of which, known respectively as Filth One and Filth Two are compiled together on this record, sewing them together like some twisted Siamese twin experiment. The first half of the record is a stirring mass of tense ambient and noise textures, patiently adding and taking away layers of sound until the end result is entirely different from what was started with. The second half is much more explosive, utilizing spastic, glitchy noise in a way that sounds chaotic and randomized, but soon reveals itself to be organized and deliberate. Fifty minutes of this seems to be a daunting task at a glance, and the music occasionally does give way to meandering, but it is constructed in such a way to keep the listener on edge and engaged until the final raucous shades of static fade away. Ultimately, Filth serves as a great initiation into the back catalog of Nick Shutter, and his escapades as Silent Cicada.
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