October 13, 2008 • self-released
Another release from the recesses of my library; (((o))) is a Mexican noise / drone doom artist by whom I have a single album. That probably won't change, as Las flores del mal has never really made a good impression on me, coming off as a poor attempt to make music without any clue of what makes it interesting or good.
The music itself is very amateur-sounding and sometimes sloppy. The album's centerpiece "Las flores del mal" is a sprawling drone doom metal track that, after taking forever to build up with some subtle noise, consists of mostly smashing a single guitar chord and cymbal hit over noise before fading out as slowly as it came in. It's not impressive at all; it simply sounds bad. Not only do the guitar and drums not always sync up, but the tone is terrible, and again it's just one chord, over and over. "El sello roto" is almost exactly the same thing, except without as much padding to stretch it from five minutes to eleven.
The piano-based opener and closer don't help much, although they aren't bad themselves, if still a bit sloppy. But still, listening to this release is incredibly unsatisfying; I feel like there could maybe be a decent drone doom band in there somewhere if they learned how to do any songwriting and maybe practiced. The noise parts weren't bad, so that's something. Overall, though, Las flores del mal is simply pointless and not even worth the twenty minutes it takes.
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