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| 3.0 good | Alabaster Jones | March 13th 17 |
2007 was an excellent year for the project known as Gnaw Their Tongues, which saw the project step its game up sixfold. While that year was spent taking big leaps, 2008 would be year of nuances, as Maurice De Jong slowly but surely perfected his craft. The first EP of 2008 for the project was Devotion, and already efforts to improve on the little things were made. The middle two tracks here are more or less standard noisy black ambient tracks for Gnaw Their Tongues, but the bookends are where things get interesting. The opener/title-track opens venomously enough, but the last couple minutes or so things die down, with a strange, almost robotic female voice describing the awful things the wounded and suffering go through. A recurring, bell-like industrial clang echoes throughout the sample, and eventually flies buzz around and chains rattle, making a mental image easy to conjure. Closer "Obgebaard" features lower and more difficult vocals from Mories, along with an array of excellent samples interwoven within each other and the noise. It was surely a good start to the year, and had this EP not been padded out by two inconsequential tracks, it may have been one of his best.
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