Quttinirpaaq "Dragged Through the Streets"
Blackest Rainbow

Doing his bit to blast run-of-the-mill doomy Sabbath-a-likes from the collective
consciousness, "Dragged Through the Streets" is dominated by pounding,
aborted-squall obsidian-coated mire-metal. Texan Matt Turner's Quttinirpaaq
(yep, it's a real word) front loads the LP with the hungry angry heavy stuff,
and takes the long walk at the album's closing stages with some looser minimal
maneuvers. The opening twenty-one minute slow fuse is too skyline-ruining to be
just doom labelled. Quttinirpaaq carve a crowd of sounds and push them slouching
towards Bethlehem to raze it to the ground. A nearly-set cement slide of dissolving
sludge-rock moves, the title track rings to the rattling of the feedback's dying notes -
the sound of bone scuffing against gibbet rails. Before the next punch of crumbling
metal comes along they counteract the length of the first flood with a terse minute
and a half track ("Hephaestus") of drone strafed rock. Clearer percussion sounds and
weird bleeds flow through the album's last third. Its swaying piano and wide-open
space rhythms placing this material in a similar lineage to Earth's 'Pentastar: In the
Style of Demons' era. The spread rainbow Rorschach art seemed initially incongruous,
but the lack of black and faux-spooky fonts says a lot about where Quttinirpaaq are at.
9/10
-- Scott McKeating, Foxy Digitalis (25 June 2008)

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You can always rely on Blackest Rainbow to provide you with
all your experimental/drone/ outsider/ psyche needs. This week
however we're treated to a right old doom fest courtesy of Quttinirpaaq.
If you're into Nadja, Melvins, Grey Daturas, Sunn O))), or just sludge
and doom in general then I'd recommend checking 'Dragged Through
The Streets' out. Slow, heavy and primal rock. Be warned cos the
second track has been mastered extremely loud and will have your
speakers for breakfast. This one raises the bar adding electronics
and layers of noise and feedback but ends before it really gets going.
A fine interlude nonetheless. 'The Sea And The Birdman' has some
monster chugging riffs and crashing drums. 'Down By The River'
is a smashing metal track that wouldn't be out of place on the
Neurot label. Lush hand printed and hand written sleeves.
A damn fine CD this one.
-- Norman Records

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Totally staggering sludge oddysey on Blackest Rainbow,
this is massively slow, boulder-shattering, slow-bleed
slime-core that sounds like Earth would sound if they
fell down a well - all broken bones and shattered skin.
This makes us think a bit of Marzuraan too - that super
lo-fi biscuit-tin approach which reaps such blisteringly
intense rewards. It's a truly terrific disc, and it comes
beautifully packaged in individually painted card sleeves.
Limited to 50 copies.
-- alt.vinyl