With
the name Fecal Vomit you can expect harsh noise to follow and it does. I mean, just imagine that you’re spewing poop
out of your mouth and let me know how that image grabs you. Eon can be assumed just as harsh, but they’re
aren’t quite as much which I guess is a testament to their name.
Fecal
Vomit, as a musical experience, is full of sharp, distorted feedback. There is a tone throughout this whole first
side that almost makes you think it is there simply to send all of the
neighborhood dogs into hiding. There are
audio clips or just someone speaking, I’m not sure, but it’s in the background
and I never really feel like I’m supposed to be paying attention to what is
being said anyway. It’s definitely the
vibe of being in a wind tunnel, at least up until the end when the lasers and
fax machine sounds take over.
While
you could consider Eon to be harsh noise as well, I’m thinking they are a
little bit less harsh at least compared with Fecal Vomit. If I heard Eon on a cassette by themselves,
I don’t know if I’d even consider them to be harsh per se because they don’t have
the same elements of sharp feedback and that static combination which makes you
kind of uncomfortable. This Eon side begins with static doom. The windy elements are also found here, but
it’s more of a static drone. If not
drone, then it definitely maintains a certain consistency throughout without
managing to lose my interest which is always important in situations such as
these.
You
could say that Fecal Vomit is the storm and Eon is the aftermath, but let’s not
take anything away from the power of Eon.
This is such a great split though because both of these artists are so
equally excellent at what they’re doing, yet they don’t sound like mirror
images of each other no matter how similar they might seem.
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