FAUX PRIDE "Slapstick Bitch" DTRASH103 Reviews


FAUX PRIDE "Slapstick Bitch" CD has got some good reviews so far, and here they all are in one place.

Crucialblast Webstore (www.crucialblast.net)
"If you explore the D-Trash catalog in depth (which with literally hundreds of releases in their catalog is no mean feat, let me tell you), you'll discover just about every possible known form of underground electronica and industrial music, everything from dystopian sound-collage and 80's style industrial to hardcore rhythmic noise, digital grindcore, black metal influenced breakcore, and everything in between, usually leaning towards the noisier and punk-influenced end of the spectrum. There's one project that recently released a new album on D-trash that actually combines many of these different sounds, a one man band called Faux Pride who has just released his third and apparently final album called Slapstick Bitch on the Canadian label. The goofy title, adolescent, gore-splattered album artwork and erratic mix of styles will probably turn a lot of people off, but I dug this album. The Manchester-based Faux Pride combines fierce gabber rhythms, harsh noise, brutal digital grindcore, weird soundscapes and LOTS of heavy, distorted breakbeats, cut up and sliced into jarring chunks of sound and edited back together into abrasive blasts of dark rhythmic sound. Noise and breakbeats are at the core of this disc, with distortion bleeding through everything, even the spoken word samples, and the only periods of calm that Faux Pride allows through the course of the sixteen songs on Slapstick Bitch are momentary fields of minimal ambience that appear between tracks. The tracks are mostly instrumental, and the only vocals that appear come from recycled film samples, sampled Gwen Stafani vocals, and other pilfered recordings, chopped and processed and looped over the grinding rhythmic noise and harsh breakcore collages. All of the heavy layers of distortion, noisy programmed blastbeats and huge, block-rockin' breaks remind me of the Curse of the Golden Vampire debut that Alec Empire did with Justin Broadrick and Kevin Martin of Techno Animal, but Faux Pride goes for a much more chaotic and spastic plunder-blast assault than COTGV. Fans of the harsher Digital Hardcore sound will love it." (DP:6)

Side-Line Magazine (www.side-line.com)
"Released on Marionette Records in the UK and D-Trash Records in Canada, Faux Pride project has just released its 3rd full length album. The least I can say is that this British project sounds really heavy. Somewhere in between grindcore, breakcore, noise and experimental "Slap Stick Bitch" is like a steaming bull in an arena. The sound is merciless while often moving into pure noise experiments leaded by a devastating rhythmic. A few and cool spoken samples are like the only parts of relief before the turbo driven engine starts again. Faux Pride sounds definitely as one of the most extreme projects for so far on D-Trash Records. The diversity of the influences is for sure a real strong element, but the sound is often too hard and damaging to endure. This album is meant for the heaviest freaks of this minimal style! (DP:6)

Organ Magazine -Organ Magazine site-
"ORGAN 24/05/08 : FAUX PRIDE – Slapstick Bitch (Marionette) - Don’t you dare throw that pie! Faux Pride is a solo electronic musician/performer from the north of England. An abrasive caustic mix of breakcore, noise and extreme distorted electronic chop ‘n slice. Ambient violence and mostly instrumental electronic noise and fuzz and the occasional spoken word to mix with the beats... And rather good it is, delivered with a healthy attitude and some challenging energy.

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