#lime lodge

William Cody Watson - Patriot [Lime Lodge]

‘Lime Lodge is pleased to release an unmistakeable voice in the American noise underground. ‘Salvaged from the rubble of his deceased laptop are two deeply intimate, glacial compositions. ‘A double dose of Watson’s invincible melancholy. ‘Never repeating himself, each crumbling swell and movement carries his arresting and oblique narrative forward. ‘Generously, he offers his brutal revelations.’ 

‘A new record label run by Angelo Harmsworth, Lime Lodge just recently released three vastly different records including one by Harmsworth himself. Not familiar with his work, I might not have even thought to check it out if it weren’t for the Torturing Nurse LP that comes as part of this first batch of the label’s releases.’

--Mr. Q

Angelo Harmsworth - Cerrillos Disco 

‘A rather lovely collection of droning electronics. The record has a deep sense of undulating seas, though it doesn’t necessarily sound like field recordings of waves were definitely used. Harmsworth has tremendous attention to detail and control over feedback and dynamics, and the resulting sound-world feels like an exercise in equilibrium. This album would be rather appropriate on labels such as 12k, Room 40, and White Paddy Mountain.

Christian Michael Filardo - Justice

‘Christian Filardo runs the Holy Page label which has also released music from Angelo Harmsworth. Justice is an odd record filled with 8-bit sounding blips and bloops (still trying to find a better term for that) but which is a bit sparse and reminds me of Stockhausen’s Kontakte. It has a bit more in common, however, with recent glitch sound art from the likes of James Hoff and Yasunao Tone. The sound palette is fixed and unchanging yet Filardo impressively avoids letting material repeat itself.’

Torturing Nurse - Collapse / Ikiru

Blistering harsh noise on this Torturing Nurse track. There is a lot going on but not a lot to speak on other than I’m reminded of Kevin Drumm’s 2004 guitar-noise tape, Impish Tyrant at first. For all of the harsh noise elitists this is one track that will leave you satisfied albeit probably deaf and by that, I mean it in the best sense of the word. 

With ‘Fever II’ Angelo Harmsworth creates night time music for the most ephemeral moments. On the second piece from his latest album ‘Cerrillos Disco’, waves of subtle harmonies give way to washes of white noise and further dissipate into nothing only to be recycled for the rest of the track’s length. There is no outspoken message with ‘Fever II’, there is nothing to be said other than to let yourself be gripped by its arresting and meditative movements.