Chad van Gaalen to release new album as Black Mold

Black Mold

Chad van Gaalen has re-emerged as Black Mold. And he’s got a new album coming out in the UK in October. It’s called Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz and is being released on Flemish Eye Recordings.

The press release describes it as “The product of several years of late-night instrumental experimentation, mainly on vintage analogue and hand-built modular synths”.

Hell, here’s some more teasers: “It’s at times glitchy and unpredictable while at other times Teutonic and sparse. The album opens with a baffling and beautiful composition, ‘Metal Spider Web #2′, a lattice of cello and clarinet complemented by shifting electronic pulses. In the dreamlike and metamorphic title track, subtle oscillations and erratic surges build before settling into a simple layering of acoustic guitars and drums. Elsewhere, other songs utilize 8-bit beats & warped synthesis to create multi-layered rhythmic patterns. Snow Blindness… comes from a basement stacked to the ceiling with broken and discarded devices and poorly wired technology fused with organic instruments, all jury-rigged to somehow work together in sequence – and often acting with no masters.”

Tracklisting is a little like this:

1 Metal Spider Webs
2 Dr. Snouth
3 Uke Puke
4 Toxic lake
5 Tetra pack heads
6 Rotten Walls
7 Memes
8 Fuck Ebay
9 Wet ferns
10 Smoking rat shit
11 Barn swallow vs sk-1
12 Gummed Desk
13 Virtual Prison
14 No Dream Nation
15 Pristine Boobles
16 Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz
17 Left behind by the digital ships
18 Swimming to food
19 Finally someone invented a teleporter!

Niiice.