La Mort Du Sens

by Gnod

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christopherogley giro days pummelling 12 minutes monster grinder is a gem a perfect soundtrack to the time honoured tradition of going completely bonkers for one day a fortnight. that refrain of sex death sex death is tied to the title for me..the little death.sex ...and life ..measured in giros.or.lives ,measured in bi weekly trips to the hole in the wall at midnight .....a triumph of a record... probably as good as just say no..but I'm a sucker for a pair of drummers.GNOD ON Favorite track: Giro Day.

Triskellectif 15 ans d'existence et je n'avais jamais entendu parler d'eux... Et pourtant ce groupe a de quoi séduire avec cet album tout ceux qui aiment le noise rock. Le chaos émerge d'une rythmique répétitive sur laquelle Gnod ajoute des strates torturées. Un long trip cauchemardesque à l'image du titre Giro Day qui clôture l'album sur 12 minutes abrasives à souhait.
Cet album donne envie de plonger dans la discographie abyssale de ce groupe quitte à ne jamais refaire surface... Favorite track: Pink Champagne Blues.

Levrikon Punky grind, more similar to their amazing JUST SAY NO album than to their more recent work. Angry political bombast, which is just the type of music we need these days. Favorite track: Giro Day.

Parksy I needed more GNOD in my life right now, a welcome return and a killer new tune

eldudowski savagery equal to the times we're in. gnod fkn bang. Favorite track: Giro Day.

Greg Hyde This is an incredible album. One of the UK's most consistently innovative and exciting psychedelic noise rock bands. Some of their best work yet.

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1.	Regimental 06:18	buy track
2.	Pink Champagne Blues 04:10	buy track
3.	The Whip and the Tongue 03:45	buy track
4.	Town 05:08	buy track
5.	Giro Day 12:12	buy track

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If one overarching feeling has dominated the last two years on this orbiting rock, it’s uncertainty. A sense of an old order in ruins, and nothing lined up to replace it. With societal strife, psychic warfare and sheer boredom assaulting us from all fronts in this still-fresh decade, co-ordinates have been hard to place forging a path forward. Therefore, who better to turn to as a soundtrack for this tumultuous new era than Gnod - longtime chroniclers of discord.

“The Death Of Meaning” is the translated rendering of the new Gnod album’s title, and this also reflects its creation. As Paddy Shine of Gnod notes: “I think the title sums it up well because this album was coming together at a time when confusion was king for us all - still is. I think we can all relate to that. This record is a really strange beast because of the big change that happened between mixing and recording. I think the title really does sum up the vibe of ‘What the Fuck’? Maybe we should have called it that!”

Wielding the taut, stripped-down and bludgeoning sound that had evolved on 2017’s ‘Just Say No The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine’ and 2018’s Chapel Perilous, Gnod initially recorded the tracks for ‘La Mort Du Sens’ with key soundman and collaborator Raikes Parade in ‘an old mill in Manchester’ around the Christmas period of 2019. “It’s the first album in a while where we kept it in-house and DIY, and we wanted it to be as ferocious as our live sets have become” says Paddy, “We banged it all down live - two drummers and a load of cabs in a room pushing each other forward”

Nonetheless, the arrival of the pandemic in early 2020 took the record on another course, adding to a turbulent and cathartic vitality that electrifies the likes of the caustic Melvins-in-hell assault of ‘Pink Champagne Blues’, the uncompromising percussive battering ram of the twelve-minute ‘Giro Day’ and the post-punk angularity of ‘The Whip And The Tongue’ with a fearsome elemental charge. “The world changed two months later so we were mixing this old world record in the new world and a lot of the vox got laid down during lockdown” reflects Paddy. “‘Pink Champagne Blues’ is a burst of total nihilist abandon and the lyrics wrote themselves in the midst of a dark wintry night of the soul”

Masters of an approach which manages to be both unmistakable and unpredictable. Gnod are now well established as prophets of the dispossessed. ‘La Mort Du Sens’ is no less than another relentlessly invigorating stop-off on their wild ride to who knows where. “It’s all about the energy” reckons Paddy. “We never really know what’s coming next. It just organically shifts around, and I think we are getting better at not analysing where it’s going and just going with the flow”

“Got No Obvious Destination, innit”

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