- Adam DeGross
- Cloud Rat
Despite my fondness for loud, obnoxious music, I often have a hard time warming up to grindcore—usually because I can’t hear enough of what’s happening. Combine hyperactive distorted guitars with frenzied, pistoning drums, and in most cases the shape and direction of the riffs ends up lost. It’s like listening to a busy construction site—all you can make out is churning, percussive noise and shouting. Some bands make that work by expertly modulating the density and speed of the barrage—Wormrot come to mind—but I tend to prefer the ones that build in a little breathing room instead.
Madison’s lyrics are frequently impressionistic, held together by subterranean private associations, and as you’ll see when you listen to the stream below, her delivery is so ragged that even reading the words (somebody has posted them at Encyclopaedia Metallum) won’t always help you tell where she is in any given line.
