Im The Devil And Im Ok - SPLIT CRANIUM CD

Ipecac Recordings announce the new and second album from the trans-atlantic group Split Cranium - which features Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer, Mara), Aaron Turner (Mammifer, Sumac, Old Man Gloom and so much more), Nate Newton (Converge, Doomriders, Old Man Gloom), Tomi Leppnen (Circle, K-X- P) and Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle) - entitled Im The Devil and Im Ok. The self-titled debut was an exhilerating barrage of super-charged hardcore, replete with blitzkrieg riffing, stampeding pace, and gravel-throated ire, a ferocious homage to Nordic d-beat masters Terveet Kdet and Anti Cimex. Six years later, their second album, Im The Devil and Im Ok comparatively explores the contrasts of melody and dissonance, opening the album with Popol Vuh-inspired keyboards by Faith Coloccia that saturate the ruthless reinterpretation of the Discharge template on "Evil Hands". The contrasting breaths of sublime ambience serve to highlight the savagery abetted by bassist Nate Newton and Tomi Leppnen (Circle, K-X- P), making Im The Devil and Im Ok simultaneously more sonically rounded and more visceral and vicious. "We wanted to make a record that was less straightforward than the first one," Turner says of their method. "Jussi loves melody and I love dissonance and noise, so that is probably the healthy creative contrast that made this record what it is." While Split Cranium continues to be driven by the blazing guitar malaise of Lehtisalo and the harrowing bellows of Turner, the melodic counterpoint provided by Newton on "Wet Shadow", the ethereal vocals summoned by Coloccia on "Ingurgitated Liquids" and "Death Bed - The Yellow Room", and the squalls of white noise on "Whirling Dusk" are a but a few of the components that knock Im The Devil and Im Ok off the axis of traditional d-beat hardcore. Some of the strongest records in the anarcho-punk canon have figured out ways to inject melody or push extremes without diffusing their punch or diminishing their hooks. Split Cranium retains the principal components of speed and vitriol while expanding their frequency spectrum into realms of both beauty and sheer ugliness, making Im The Devil and Im Ok a white-knuckle mind-melter in a realm of sterile imitations.Additional Info: Personnel: Anja Kowalski (vocals, kazoo); Tom Wouters (vocals, clarinet, vibraphone, xylophone); David Bov?e (guitar); Wim Willaert (accordion); Peter Vermeersch (clarinet); Bruno Vansina, Michel Mast, Eric Morel, Benjamin Boutreur (saxophone); Bart Maris, Luc van Lieshout (trumpet); Stefaan Blancke, Marc Meeuwissen, Jan De Backer, Jan De Backer (trombone); Pieter Lamotte, Pieter Lamotte (bass trombone); Leonaar De Graeve (tuba); Peter Vandenberghe (keyboards); Kristof Roseeuw (double bass); Roel Poriau, Teun Verbruggen, Danny Van Hoeck (percussion).

Specifics

• Album: Im The Devil And Im Ok
• Artist: SPLIT CRANIUM
• Label: IPECAC RECORDINGS
• Genre: Rock

. Evil Hands
. The Age Of Embitterment
. Wet Shadow
. Ingurgitated Liquids
. Whirling Dusk
. Pain Of Innonence
. Blood Boiler
. Death Bed / The Yellow Room
. Heavy Daughter
. I'm The Devil And I'm OK

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