Walking into NO-FI’s new EP Noise Floor feels like walking into a small, dark room – it’s claustrophobic, anxiety inducing, and will leave you with a general feeling of paranoia.
But I guarantee you’ll want to go back and listen to it over and over again. It’s strange and confronting, but completely captivating.
Noise Floor, the twisted new EP from Sydney experimental artist NO-FI quite legitimately had me feeling uneasy in the stomach. But I’d go back and listen to it again and again.
On Noise Floor, the Sydney-based artist navigates experimental and industrial sounds to hurl out a non-stop barrage of mangled noises that’ll leave you hyperventilating in the corner.
NO-FI incorporates cassette tapes into each part of his creative process… from the creation of the music to the live performance, to the distribution of the music.
It’s electronic music purposefully made without a computer. The result is authentic, raw, visceral, and in-your-face.
Noise Floor opens with Bludgeon, one of the punchier tracks, but no less disturbing. It also holds a fitting name, as the song feels like an absolute bludgeoning of the mind.
The EP’s seven-minute long centre-piece Not Now – built around Julia Gillard’s famous misogyny speech – is easily the most eerie of the six tracks, and legitimately left me feeling uneasy in the stomach.
While Noise Floor can often feel like a barrage of white noise, it still houses the occasional slice of cleverly constructed melody. The EP is strange and sometimes terrifying, but always an incredible listen.
Do yourself a favour and give Noise Floor a spin above. And make sure you head along to 107 in Redfern on the 14th of July to catch NO-FI’s tape launch. You can order a tape here.
