Henry Leo Duclos - The Fall Of My Church
[Audiobulb]

Melody is banished in the gloom ridden world of Henry Leo Duclos. The Fall Of My Church is a veritable soup of sounds, atmospheric drones are built around inconsistent clicks and cuts, breaks are torn from their beats and the whole album is saturated by glitchy electronics to fabulously dark effect.

Flashes of new elements emerge all the time and breaks in the storm reveal snapshots of miscellaneous voice samples. Bass sounds are few and far between but used to maximum effect, adding a solid intensity to tracks, as in This Is Most Unfortunate, Fate.

The complete absence of melody can be challenging but works well, the only notes present are added in the form of minimal drones, all focus is centred on the sharp, erratic clicks and cuts which dominate and illuminate the tracks through the constantly shifting tempo.

If you listen to any track, make it How Long Was I Sleeping? for the totally unprecedented blast of avant rock drones in the middle of the track. The Fall Of My Church is alternative home listening of an indulgent and base nature. Not for the faint hearted but original and truly satisfying. But be warned, it may bring out the worst in you.