Chrome – Half Machine Lip Moves
Self-released on Drömm Records, Hansten Klork is the lone album by ’80s experimental post-punk group Metabolist. Press at the time compared the London-based group to contemporaries The Pop Group, Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle & This Heat, even going so far as calling the band “a poor mans This Heat,” though their sound was actually more inspired by the repetitive motorik and minimalism of krautrock groups like Can, Gong, Faust, and Magma. “Metabolist summed up the way we went about creating our music. An idea which passed through the metabolism and accumulated stuff… Creativity and playing too loud. Also the belief that we were going somewhere, no-one had been before.” Lo-fi home recording, metallic drums, apocalyptic vocals, prog-punk saxophone, and Suprematist artwork all come together for a truly unique, and deeply heavy record.
Recommended – Full Listen
Tags: Experimental / Krautrock / Post-Punk
Tracklist:
A1 Curly Wall
A2 Alien On Sunday
A3 King Quack
B1 Lights
B2 Hoi Hoi Hoi
B3 Merchandise
B4 Hansten Klork
Credits:
Design [Cover Design], Promotion – Jacqueline Bailey
Lacquer Cut By – GR
Lyrics By – A. Loach (tracks: A2), S.S. Millward (tracks: A1, B4)
Mixed By [Mixing], Edited By [Editing] – Anton, Simon
Performer [Metabolist Are] – Anton Loach, Malcolm Lane, Mark Rowlatt, Shaiga Simon Millward
Written-By [All Titles By] – Loach, Lane, Rowlatt, Metabolist, Millward
