L.MINYGWAL: eer CD. FUCKED UP Thrash, Doom, Stoner Rock, Hardcore, Noise, Post Rock, Industrial. Check audio samples

Description

L.Minygwals second full-length, is a -really- weird album.
It opens with a sampled speech by a woman who seems to be on the phone and one basically spends the entire 7:35 of the opening track waiting for the sample to end and the song to start — only it doesn’t. Heavy, plodding guitars play along to the mostly incomprehensible conversation and shrieks surface for some time midway through the track and again near the end — thats it.
The second track continues with the doom and noise influences, but now features some smooth female vocals; this is a rather good track in a strange way.
Things seem to stay more or less the same for the first minute of the third track, titled “I Excessiv-ly Read My Letters Frantic-ly and Memorize ‘Em Manic-ly”, until the apparently sweet female vocalist suddenly begins to mercilessly shred her vocal chords on disc.

L. Minygwal ? E’er
Label: Virusworx Records ? WORX 004
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 2003
Genre: Stoner Rock, Hardcore, Noise, Post Rock, Industrial
Tracklist
1 Alg. 7:35
2 Ey 6:11
3 I Excessiv-ly Read My Letters Frantic-ly And Memorize’em Manic-ly 3:37
4 Izs 3:22
5 R’ 5:08
6 Seno-keé 2:45
7 Wakarimasen 11:30

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(l.minygwal live @ k17 berlin/germany THEY DO MANAGE TO REPRODUCE SOME OF THE “I Excessiv-ly Read My Letters Frantic-ly and Memorize ‘Em Manic-ly” MADNESS!!)

Think Karen Crisis on the more desperate side of things. The song gains a considerable amount of intensity from this and certainly makes the listener sit up and pay attention. After all the hysteria comes a more tranquil, ambient track, but its disquieting background noises make sure you know theres more to come. And indeed more painful shrieking comes your way next, in a noise-based track followed by an unremarkable interlude.
This leads into the 11:30 final track, which begins very much on the ambient side of things, with some pretty touches and a very different feel from the rest of the album — almost reminding me of Maudlin of the Well. Three minutes from the end the heavy guitars kick in for a few moments, but nothing really happens and the track ends on an ambient note again as a sort of anti-climax after all the insanity.
The album clocks in at 40 minutes, which minus the lengthy opening and closing tracks means theres only about 20 minutes that are actually worthwhile — but those are 20 minutes the likes of which you are unlikely to find elsewhere in terms of disturbing weirdness and intensity.

L.MINYGWAL is on journey through their own micro-cosmos since 1993. It consists of both emotional and raw music like a soundtrack to your own inner destruction. 1996 the band changed their name from LOST IN THE SUPERMARKET into L.MINYGWAL. The trio connects guitar-based Thrash/Doom/Noise-Rock with samples and distorted cellos and flutes. In digestibility walks along with straight catch, metal-elements combine with disharmonic Noise-attacks, the singing of front woman and bass-player Andrea covers the whole spectrum between scratchy hysteria and smart fragility, samples sound dark, dangerous and oppressive. This music is definitely nothing for fans of happy melodies. Admiring this three people live means giving yourself to a wall of sounds