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Drummer Zach D’Agostino and vocalist/synth sorceress Noa Ver have established their joint venture Sea Moss as a staple of Portland’s canonical DIY scene. Their chaotic, abrasive vitality is a component and parcel of their enchantment. However behind their violent bursts of harsh noise is a deep appreciation for his or her sonic forebears and contemporaries. Their songs comprise moments of Black Dice, Guerilla Toss, Lightning Bolt, and New York’s “mutant” entourage, however these split-second homages add as much as an entire that’s completely distinct from its components.
As we speak, as they put together to hitch the incomparable Kim Gordon on tour, Ver and D’Agostino are saying their sophomore album, SEAMOSS2, due out October 28 by way of Ramp Native. They’re additionally sharing the venture’s lead single, “Sweet Run,” alongside a disturbing visible therapy by Black Triangle Films, starring We Fell to Earth’s Wendy Rae Fowler, premiering beneath.
The track’s basis is a pummeling rhythm created D’Agostino’s drums and Ver’s voice, transmuted by way of a setup that entails a contact mic she holds immediately in opposition to her neck, fed by way of hacked suggestions oscillators housed in empty Rococo tin containers. Above the seething, atonal association, Ver shouts an incomprehensible and unhinged prime line that ties the monitor collectively in an unholy union of harmonic austerity and textural hedonism.
