Kuvaus
Läjä Äijälä & Sir Albert Witchfinder: Centuries of Youth
LP
SVART279, Svart Records, Finland, 2021
Black vinyl, 16 page booklet
A1 All Made-Up
A2 Hassle
A3 Walk
B1 Room
B2 Dominion
B3 Crush Down
B4 Everything Is A Dream
Centuries of Youth is a meeting of two Finnish iconoclasts, Terveet Kädet leader Läjä Äijälä and Albert Witchfinder, of Reverend Bizarre fame and many others. This ongoing collaboration’s first released effort was the digital single Crush Down.
Minimalist in its musical approach, Centuries of Youth’s cornerstone is laid by Läjä Äijälä with a wall of pulsating analog terror, on top of which Witchfinder’s vocal delivery pours a poisonous mixture of uncertainty and violent vitriol. Lyrical content is culled from Witchfinder’s diary entries, jotted down over the years of youth during the last years of the previous millennium.
The debut album Centuries of Youth’s seven tracks range from Whitehouse-esque power electronic lunacy to more downbeat, unsettling avant-ambient pieces.
