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01. VATICAN SHADOW - Circumstances Quickly Became Questioned
02. VATICAN SHADOW - Tonight Saddam Walks Amidst Ruins
03. VATICAN SHADOW - Muscle Hijacker Tribal Affiliation
04. VATICAN SHADOW - Contractor Corpses Hung Over the Euphrates River
05. VATICAN SHADOW - Enter Paradise
06. VATICAN SHADOW - Remember Your Black Day
07. VATICAN SHADOW - Not the Son of Desert Storm, but the Child of Chechnya
08. VATICAN SHADOW - Jet Fumes Above the Reflecting Pool
ARTIST
TITLE
Remember Your Black Day
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
HOS 399CD HOS 399CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/29/2013

Remember Your Black Day is the debut album proper from Vatican Shadow, the first material conceived and produced as a full-length by Dominick Fernow for the project following almost a dozen tapes (mostly released on Hospital Productions) and vinyl editions (released by the likes of Blackest Ever Black, Modern Love, and Type) over the last three years. None of the eight tracks included have been released before on any other format. At a time when the scene is saturated with "noise techno," the album is almost celebratory by contrast, balancing caustic licks of distortion and oppressive bass with cleanly mixed synth tones and ricocheting claps in a shell-shocked, surreal soundsphere. With production assistance from Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), the album includes the most direct and propulsive Vatican Shadow material yet, continuing an evolutionary shift away from the complex, collage-based narrative of those cassette releases into more visibly direct contact with the listener. There is a functional connection to dance music here, honing in on the human element embedded within a subject matter so fraught with inhumanity.