The addition of Aaron Dilloway, formerly of Wolf Eyes, to the Body/Head matrix was always going to be an interesting proposition. The results, here on today's release of Body/Dilloway/Head only confirm that supposition. The Three Lobed Recordings offering is abrasive in the best possible ways.
Opener "Body/Erase" slowly builds up atop tape fragments and scratches of guitar. The overall effect here goes from soothing to disturbing over the course of the track's 17 minutes, though it's a journey that sounds utterly unlike lots else you're probably going to listen to today. "Goin' Down" recalls Kim Gordon's Sonic Youth, and offers an almost lovely respite from the discordant elements here. Bill Nace, the other member of Body/Dilloway/Head, contributes much to this one with the plucked and vibrating guitar-figures anchoring the number. The album closer, "Secret Cuts", mixes in tapes and fragments of vocals to unnerving effect. The cut progresses over the sort of hell-scapes mapped out by Wolf Eyes and Non, though at a somewhat determined pace at times. This was my favorite of the three cuts here, though that's sort of odd to say given how unrelenting this music is. If none of this is positively soul-crushing, the force of the tracks is found in the corrosive bits that make up the forward motion of each number. Taken all together, the work here paints a picture of an unforgiving landscape.
Body/Dilloway/Head is out today via Three Lobed Recordings.