for DTRASH31 - "The Tension And The Darknesst"
Reviewed by Nicolas @ recycleyourears

"Anything goes. So could be titled the second album by Exist, a project of the manager of DTrash [as well as noCore's .miQ Schmidt], J.Schizoid. With these 9 tracks and 29 minutes, Exist plays with a bit everything, doing it like nobody else, and landing more or less on their feet. More tense than dark, this album has rock samples, pop samples, movie samples, spoken words, noise, rhythms, scapes, all twisted, molten, and edited into tracks that often start like something structured ("What they want to see") before getting all meshed and chaotic ("When you least expect it"). Drenched in punk attitude and lo-fi sound, "The tension and the darkness" seems like a drug-induced, semi improvised recording session by people who wouldn't know exactly if they want to do harsh noise or rhythmic material. They end up with some that is very original for sure, but highly destructured and weird. Going in circles for a couple of minutes, then adopting a new idea and dropping it a few moments later, Exist must have had a lot of fun recording this thing. At the end, you get something that often loses its listener, but sounds fresh and is definitely not the clone of something (or at least not of something I know). Nice and tasty, but maybe a bit too chaotic to be really efficient.

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