Total Fucking Romance

VINYL FORMAT. Coming out of the dank dark testosterone-fueled underbelly of noise, Bob McCully's Women In Tragedy project offers a skewed perspective in that he is kind of a softy. His music sits nicely beside the post-Wolf Eyes noise/industrial/drone genre that focuses on depravity and doom which includes acts like Robedoor, Prurient, Hive Mind, etc. However, McCully takes his name from a series of Lars von Trier movies: Breaking the Waves, The Idiots, and Dancer in the Dark, and this sort of sensitive and woeful take on people in extreme agony is just as evident in his music as the horror film torturer's glee that is common to the genre. Kneeling over a vast array of distortion pedals and processors, he pipes in synthesizers, guitars, and screams to create thick, harsh sounding loops and walls of sound. The emotional warmth evident despite the deafening buzz and crumble gives the project a Jesu or Nadja-like intamcy and immediacy.