Mats Gustafsson & Thurston Moore - Hit The Wall! (2015)

Originally scheduled for release in 2010, the pair's 'diskaholic' tendency is referenced in the title to this duo set, recorded in concert in Philadelphia in 2009, the same tour which yielded 2012's 'Play Some Fucking Stooges' single-sided LP. 'Hit the Wall!' is in reference to the first port of call when entering a record shop, the wall (usually behind or adjacent to the counter) where all "the rare shit" usually is, to quote Gustafsson. Of the two tracks on the disc, the first takes its name from the album title,'Hit the Wall! (First)', the second 'Buying Saturns on the Street!' is in reference to their shared love of Sun Ra sides.

The opening exchanges are comparatively restrained, Moore scratching away at his guitar with a file whilst Gustafsson flecks overblown rasps in his direction, a bristling interchange in serrated tongues. In a moment of calm the distant rumble of Gustafsson's electronics begin to encroach, then comes the noise, Moore wringing prismatic colours from distorted barbs and lashing feedback, whilst the Swede controls the contours of a grumbling rockslide of malevolent circuitry. Somewhere Brötzmann is shaking his head ruefully. When the deluge finally subsides, the quality of the sounds are no less gnarled, but they are deployed with an almost meditative dialectic deftness for the remainder of the 48 minute title track. 'Buying Saturns on the Street' is the duo at their most compressed, 15 minutes which quickly escalates to the kind of feral sonic pugilism which dominated their OTOroku offering 'Vi Är Alla Guds Slavar'.