NI

While this is a tough listen in my musical world, it's also so very impressive. An EP is actually a good way to go with such oppressive sounding music. This EP is the very first recording they released back in 2010. We get just under 24 minutes of music over four tracks from this french four piece of drums, bass and two guitarists. Tagged with brutal prog, math rock and avant, this is a relentless affair that will make you dizzy. A punk attitude even though this is all instrumental save for some wordless stuff late on "Ni Truite Ni Cerise".

Noisy and complex, that opener "Gros Gibier" is my least favourite tune on here. At least the second track with the wordless bit has some tempo changes and is more interesting. The third track "Poppy" is far from that and is my favourite of the four. It still has sections that leave me cold, but it opens with a nice heavy sound, love the bass and the angular guitar too. The closer is the longest piece at 7 1/2 minutes and has it's ups and downs for my tastes. An all out assault early but it will have sections that settle down and are more tolerable to the ears. So avant though with lots of noise.

NI has connections to POIL and PINOIL, all playing what sounds like Japanese inspired noise rock. POIL is the one of the three that I prefer, and lately they have been working with a Japanese artist not so surprisingly.