Michael Chapman At Juno Download

Review: With recent releases from the likes of industrial post-punk outfits Factory Floor and HTRK, this new release on Blast First Petite comes as something of a change in pace. A 38 minute album in two parts from Yorkshire-born composer and guitarist Michael Chapman, The Resurrection & The Revenge of The Clayton Peacock consists of layers of echoing pulsations, string manipulation and rhythmic neck-knocking to create fresh sounds and effects. Of course the music is much more than simple experimentation - the stark, slate grey sonics paint a bleak picture somewhere in between the cold, windswept landscape of his native Yorkshire and a dystopian future, creating a distinctly cold, damp British type of guitar-based drone music that sits alongside the drier, scorched music of American artists like Sunn O))) and Earth.