Changez Les Blockeurs CD

Despite racking up over a century of solo and collaborative albums since debuting the Nurse With Wound project in 1979, Steven Stapleton shows no signs of slowing down, and continues to provide "sinister whimsy to the wretched". His latest album-length missive offers a radical re-imagining of "Changez Les Blockeurs" by The New Blockaders, a near legendary 1982 album that's long been regarded as one of the noise scene's touchstone releases (for the record, Stapleton was the first person ever to purchase a copy). Featuring three long, unsettling workouts built around dark ambient textures, occasional melodic refrains and plentiful loops of discordant, often industrial field recordings, the album is impressively absorbing and otherworldly despite its deliberately obtuse ethos.