leonard Nimoy

The Screaming Cage KRK078 CDR 9trks 72min

The final document in the hell-bent voyage of the Nimoy, The Screaming Cage was, at the time of its release, kRkRkRk's most meticulous & elaborate home recording.

Combining electronic drones & rhythms, live & sampled acoustic textures (metal percussion!) with machines, dodgy electronics & dirge guitar, the album faithfully rendered all the various facets of the group.

Particularly striking was the obvious tension between tight song/lyric structures & abstract soundscapes. In fact this stylistic schizophrenia was a perennial feature of leonard Nimoy - at least in their recorded work. It is displayed, on The Screaming Cage, by a couple of extended sequences where industrial rock songs are ultimately dissolved into mesmerizing, ambient drones.

The Screaming Cage is, on the whole, a rock album - but even the most assertively rock & roll of the album's offerings display a certain ambivalence to the medium. Melody is generally sacrificed in favour of rhythm with bass & guitar usually functioning as percussive adjuncts to the drum machine. The songs themselves are quintessential Nimoy: obsessive, nihilistic & brimming with violence, self-loathing & despair. Powerful stuff, pretty unique in the NZ context - &, most definately, not for the faint of heart!

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August 2004