Black Bones

Belfast's Black Bones have released a six track album, vinyl only, with four further tracks to come out via a 10" and 7". The six on the self- titled album are to some extent inspired by/ influenced by dub, dub- techno and the underground percussive sounds of early 80s post- punk but this is music that is also very much being produced on its own terms, in its own world. Black Bones are big fans of the work of Andrew Weatherall and his attention to detail and singular sound can definitely be found inside the grooves of the album. 

The only one that exists in an online way is Zanzibar (also at Soundcloud)- it arrives with a subterranean, two note bleep surrounded by a murky hiss, and then a minute in a heavy duty drumbeat thunders in, not a million miles from some of Sabresonic's metallic dub- techno but much tougher and rougher, as if hewn from a cliffside. There's a vocal sample, an echoed chant, and more drums, shunting everything else along. 

On the disc Zanzibar is followed by the industrial dub of Take It Personal and then Warped, which starts out at a crawl with early 90s synth sounds bent out of shape and then kicks into gear with a piston powered breakbeat. The sound of rave gone dark and ominous. Flip the disc over and Voodoo rattles in, percussive and intent on gaining your attention. Persuasion is tougher still, a monkey wrench smacking  apiece of scaffolding in an echo chamber with dub FX and a hissing voice. There are synth stabs and a voice shouting, 'What's this what's this what's this?'. It ends with King Of The South, an abstract Two Lone Swordsmen indebted tribal dub outing, a tiny reminder from across the Irish Sea. 

Edit: the whole thing can be listened to and bought at Bandcamp.