SUICIDE BEAUTY SPOT
Future Music Review
01/12/09
Richard Bultitude's second full-length album under the Point b moniker - following his 2006 debut A Previous Version of Myself, with the project oft compared to Boards of Canada, but perhaps more appropriately, Burial.
Suicide Beauty Spot is not the happiest of records, not that you wouldn't expect it to be with the record's pretext being a place where people people go to kill themselves. he records treads tranquilly over Dubstep/2-Step boards, with thick atmosphere's brooding over a combination of either slick, mid-paced beats or slow, crunching breaks and calibrating parallel basslines.
The trippy opener Weightless sets the standard, as sweeping vocal statements stutter across wobbly bass and itchy percussive strikes. This mixture of stuttering vocals, crisply programmed mechanical beats and bass is prominent throughout, disbanded only by the odd polarising melody or ethereal ambience.
Suicide Beauty Spot does lack the opulent melodies displayed by the artists that Poinyt B is compared to - preferring to knwuckle-drag along darker terrains with an admirable sense of consistency. The grinding machines of Guilty Pleasures stalk menacingly throughout, while Further Thoughts on Movements bellows with warped Tipper-style programming and deviant melodies. Further dark instruments are equally persuasive - integrating subtle piano and terse strings into what is often a claustrophobic Electronic mix.
7/10 by Danny Turner
