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Release #3 from the Finnish solo act CRUSHING MY PALMS BETWEEN THE GLASS SHARDS YOU GAVE ME is my first release reviewed from 2023! And what an adorable title for this release. Simply F.U.C.K! This artist also known as Zero seems to like short EP releases with the last one "Wake Up! A New Dawn Is Waiting for You" only barely exceeding 18 minutes.

F.U.C.K is slightly shorter and barely exceeds 17 minutes. This one features five tracks and continues the mix of post-rock, emoviolence, electronica, ambient and industrial noise. This release tamps down the screamo and black metal influences and opts for a more ethereal approach.

"Reducing The Grain" starts with a piano groove and evolves into a hypnotic electronic loop. "Individuals Double-Crossing or Not, Cry Myself to Sleep" starts off as a freaky power electronic track and then kind of remains in a hypnotic droning state with a few swirling effects on the lower range of the sound spectrum.

"To Find a Purpose in an Ever Absurd World" gets all aggro in a post-industrial way like an angry Throbbing Gristle with a power noise hiss. Nice production as it allows more ambient piano tinklings to interact with it. The crazy electro-grooves are indicative of some of the newer extreme subgenres of electronic music.

"Waking Up" is basically a 48-second hive of hornets effect in electronic form. "Angels Stuck In Hell, Forever Is One Of The Flood" is the longest track over 5 minutes and is basically noise electronica with a subdued melodic effect subdued in the background. Most will probably find this extremely annoying. It's OK but there's tons of noise electronica out there these days. Nothing really to latch onto.

I was highly impressed with CRUSHING's last EP with its inventive approach to post-rock that offered all kinds of interesting experiments on the way. This EP simply feels like a sampler for various modern electronic music effects. Not bad as i do like this kind of post-industrial power noise stuff but this release isn't anything to get excited about.

What an impressive world by CRUSHING MY PALMS BETWEEN THE GLASS SHARDS YOU GAVE ME (aka CMPBTGSYGM).

Their latest album sounds veiled in an incredible dark collision of heavy post rock and dready electronika. Such an eccentric combination cannot be heard so easily and would be recognized as an innovative movement in another sense. The first shot "reducing the grain." tells you everything around the current CMPBTGSYGM, flooded with (con)fusion of electronic dissonance, guitar-oriented post-rock distortion, and beautiful tragic melody lines by the keyboard. This novel noble harmonization would remind you of a sort of similarity to a Japanese psychedelic feedback pioneer Les Rallizes D'nud's, dunno CMPBTGSYGM are following them though. And sounds partially like recent Ulver (at least for me). Quite unique but not unpleasant at all. You can be drenched in violent dissective sound cracks through the following track "individuals double-crossing or not, cry myself to sleep". Deep inorganic infernal soundquakes sound sarcastic but even lyrical and comfortable. For them to be simpler the soundscape is, to be better it may be. "to find a purpose in an ever absurd world" is also dry and withered, but melodic discharges in the middle phase are so elegant and essential enough to absorb you completely. Such a charming tip is one of their great viewpoints. After "waking up", a monotonous noisy interlude, "angels stuck in hell, forever is one of the flood." drives you into another crazy dimension. Magnificent sound dissonance gives you a wondrous impact. A mystic freeform sound / noise hotchpotch could really catch your inner mind strictly, regardless of kinda machinery monotone. Just like black water oozing through their sound cracks, this song will venomize you in an auditory manner.

Ha ha, a Finnish post rock mavericks CMPBTGSYGM have grown to be de...err...upgraded to another electronic noise champ.