Smut is the solo project of Lucy Johnson, one of the most talented and versatile musicians of the North England underground noise/drone scene. Apart from being a very talented painter, whose works have adorned many of that scene's releases, she has consistently brought out amazing stuff with bands such as the black metal noise of Esk, the psychedelic out-thereness of Space Victim (with Mike Vest of Bong), the post-punk madness of Dark Bargain, and most importantly the sublime piano-and-drone awesomeness of Witchblood, where she is collaborating with the one and only Lee Stokoe of Culver and Matching Head tapes. This is the first (out of five) Smut releases, and here Lucy presents a variety of sounds, from the guitar abuse of the first side that is equal parts screeching black metal noise a-la Skullflower and bass-heavy a-la Sunn O))), to the static mournful drone a-la Culver of the second side, which descends into an amazing piano melody (Lucy is a great piano player as will be obvious in other Smut, as well as Witchblood, releases) only to be lost into a deafening factory machine chaos. 2012 tape on Turgid Animal.
Thank you for all these Smut tapes.
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