Ramleh - Say Fuck album flac

I'm not over-familiar with RAMLEH, but if this single is a decent representation of their music, then they have a slow, dense, distortion-clogged sound which is both graceful & cumbersome, some heavyweight Sumo relation of Rock which has grown up in some isolated atoll, away from the mainland of Industrial Rock with it's EARACHE derivative noise. The closest group I could compare them to is SPLINTERED circa the "Pigmeat" era. "Say Fuck" - pained, strained guitars thrash slowly around as if having fallen into some La Brea tar pit, they lack the motivation or intention to escape while drums splash & thud soporifically, the vocalist shouting pained snatches of words. On "Slack Jaw" the sound breaks it's density, wallowing instead in an arena of noises, guitar stomping around in some beligerant quest for some intangeable 'thing' over occasionally tight drumming, which moves in and out of composition. It's a medium-slow-paced thing, but has a nice deep textural sound to it. Hardly Rock, but something more - archaic, atmospheric & uncompromising. If you're into RAMLEH, you'll buy this anyway, knowing exactly what to expect If, like me, you're more or less ignorant of their sound, but like dark, moody music played on grizzling fugs of distorted guitar, then give this a go - I think you'll like it..Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.