So you are interested in this 2nd offering from Saskatoon’s Holzkopf? You are a daring individual, open to the idea of 60+ minutes of aural battering and defeat. Yet you come away from your stereo feeling as fresh as a daisy patch, uncontrollably trampled by a hundred rusty machines chugging along to the discarded rhythms of hip hop, break-beat, free jazz and acid house music.

That is one way to describe Jake Hardy’s latest efforts as beat/noise experimenter Holzkopf. This CD is an apology is just that. There is no intention to harm here. No intention to devastate. Just a through the lines warning that you may not understand, nor enjoy what lies within this package.

“I want to make music that sounds like it’s running as fast as it can away from the end of the world. Like it’s trying desperately to grab onto anything old, tried and true, in order to slow down as much as possible before hitting the wall at the end of the road. Savoring every last moment. Taking long breaths.” Add to that direction segments of melodic strings being pushed between walls of mid-range noise and clumsy rhythms. Bits of clunky guitar inspired by cold beer and sunny days pop up, and then always more noise and more interruptions. We are sorry…

Total duration: 63m57s

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