- With ties to both Warp and the British Library Sound archive, the newly minted Public Information label has to date dropped a pair of titles: ADR's Solitary Pursuits and, now, Mind Controls the Flood from No UFO's, the alias for Konrad Jandavs, a noisemaker based in Vancouver. Though this is his debut on wax, the Spectrum Spools imprint is scheduled to reissue the Soft Coast cassette, self-released in 2010, in the immediate future. Mind Controls the Flood, like Soft Coast, documents Jandav's esoteric experiments in psychedelic synthesizer, Motorik pulse, punk guitar squall and drum machine clatter.
Side A opens with the record's most forceful piece. Built from roiling static and buzz-saw guitar, "Flood III" is an indestructible nugget of electro rock falling squarely between Chrome and Suicide. But check it: just as it hits a stride its framework falls to the ground. A rudimentary synth progression soon emerges ("Bright and Blue"), but that, too, collapses after a brief stretch of repetition. The flipside lacks a hard rocker akin to "Flood III," but it's significantly more cracked as a whole. Grafted to all manner of sonic hiccups and ill-fitting juxtapositions, both "Ted & Monty" and "Form Constant Flood" revolve around garbled, little loops that wouldn't sound out of place as score fodder in some C-grade science fiction flick from the early '80s. After them, a faint whiff of serenity arrives with the closer "Less Or Maybe Even Much More." It's a glowing ambient drone whose head-scratching title is an apt encapsulation of this strange, little platter.
Tracklist01. Flood III
02. Bright And Blue
03. Mechanically Replayed
04. C. Bryan (Magnitizdat)
05. Ted & Monty
06. Form Constant Flood
07. Less Or Maybe Even...