'Wisdom Spit', the latest offering from Lana Del Rabies, is one of my more abstract picks - and proudly so. It’s a jagged, disorienting collage of noise, anchored by a rambling spoken-word monologue that veers between sermon and tortured recollection.
The surrounding soundscape is a barbed-wire shroud: industrial hammers clatter, strangled angelic wails rise and fall, and festering swathes of electric static drone relentlessly. At times, the mangled layers are pierced by pleading voices from the abyss. In totality, it’s a brutal, hell-hole of undulating sonic shards.
This track is not an easy listen; it is challenging. Its sheer intensity will alienate many - but that’s part of the thrill with experimental music: it polarizes. And for a few of us, that extremity is precisely what makes it exhilarating. That's why I love it.
'Wisdom Spit' is taken from Lana Del Rabies’ new release 'Omnipotent Fuck', a joint venture between Phage Tapes and her new label, Feral Crone Recordings.
LINK: lanadelrabies.com