i check out liturgy every once in a while to see if they've constructed something i can actually deal with, and the answer is always that they haven't.

i don't know what i actually want them to do. i know i like some of colin marston's instrumental work, i know i like sonic youth; i think i point out in every dismissive black metal review that i'm coming at this from a noise rock perspective, not the perspective of all of those terrible nazi bands that i'd be more likely to attend a protest about than actually go to see, even if i'd draw a line at actually preventing people from attending. and, i get that liturgy aren't like that, which is part of the reason that i'll take the time to listen every once in a while, even if i never actually get anything from it. i would probably find their lyrics flat out stupid if i could understand them, or took the time to read them, but i'm at least relatively comfortable that i wouldn't find them to be the literal negation of everything i'd actively fight for and against, the way i would for most music that sounds like this.

so, if liturgy ever pull everything they're doing together - the electronics, the noise, the atonality, the classical instrumentation - into something compelling that i can actually get into, i guess i'll know it when i hear it.

but, this is still boring. and, frankly, it's still stupid.

https://liturgy.bandcamp.com/album/h-a-q-q