Gnod – Ingnodwetrust – Rocket Recordings – LAUNCH042 - ****

Gnod, sometime collaborators with White Hills (above), underpin echoing guitar and bad dream vocal snippets with metronomic Krautrock rhythms. Ingnodwetrust's two offensively single-minded epics are available on vinyl or as downloads only, the band looking from their Salford lair towards the future and the past, oblivious to the decaying present.
The twenty minute, monochromatic splurge of Tony's First Communion is belatedly brightened by the sunlit shafts of a two chord keyboard part. Vatican's compellingly turgid fourteen minutes sound like a clinically depressed Can. Halfway through someone screams, and a wonky Italian progressive rock cathedral organ clouds the closing section oppressively.
Impressively unapologetic.

(5/6/11)