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Album Review: Shlohmo -- Dark Red

Christopher H James
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"Dark Red is a crafty Halloween excursion, but If Shlohmo’s really going to creep us out, he’s going to have to start screwing with reality again."

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Setting aside the experimentation of Bad Vibes, Shlohmo focuses here on honing his compositional talents.
 

So whilst Dark Red doesn’t melt synapses, it’s infested with all manner of ominous shadow-lurkers that might have crawled out of a vintage John Carpenter movie; e.g. the disturbingly unintelligible vocalisations of Apathy or the closing horror, Beams, which lowers the curtain with a shuddering orgy of beats. Dark Red is a crafty Halloween excursion, but If Shlohmo’s really going to creep us out, he’s going to have to start screwing with reality again.