Headcrack, by Controlled Bleeding

Headcrack

by Controlled Bleeding

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Matthew Gere This remaster turns this set of songs into a completely new experience for me. An absolute revelation. Favorite track: Vocal Chant #2.

Michael Carter this is fantastic,varied in style,compared to their earlier releases.This reminds me of the last two Ramleh albums,absolutely amazing music,thank you for making this music available again.Stunning and utterly essential.

Ivan Jovanovic I don’t quite understand their power noise albums, but this remastered version of Headcrack is just beautiful

neur0dancer April 2018. 10 CD box

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1.	Vocal Chant #1 04:32	buy track
2.	Firelight 05:37	buy track
3.	Letters to the Life Cycle Pt. 1 05:34	buy track
4.	Dry Lungs 04:55	buy track
5.	Slithering Blade 02:34	buy track
6.	Music for Earth and Water 04:37	buy track
7.	Headcrack Pt. 1 (Music For Four Guitars) 03:51	buy track
8.	Moonshards 02:29	buy track
9.	Headcrack Pt. 2 07:08	buy track
10.	Headcrack Pt. 3 02:44	buy track
11.	Vocal Chant #2 03:25	buy track
12.	Untitled 1 04:09	buy track
13.	Untitled 2 02:38	buy track
14.	Untitled (The Missing Headcrack Piece - Remixed) 05:01	buy track

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Released as a vinyl-only album on Sterile Records in 1986, Controlled Bleeding's Headcrack is a monumental album that saw Paul Lemos and crew delve into experimental soundscape art-music even deeper than on previous releases. A new fascination with vocal chant, acoustic guitar, and piano-led oddities emerges, with a warmth and beauty that serves as a counterpoint to earlier power noise experiments. The record has been praised for its masterful working in the ambient and heavenly voices genres, but on pieces like Dry Lungs, it is evident that something different is going on: industrial scraping and twisting are all over the place, but, perhaps owing to the sublime atmosphere of the record, one hesitates to call the sounds tortured. The result is a glorious weaving of different styles.

Headcrack is, in its way, the most hopeful of Controlled Bleeding records, and Artoffact is proud to reissue this masterpiece with remastered audio, updated cover art, and, for the first time, on gorgeous blue vinyl.

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released November 3, 2017

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