The rumors of a supergroup making drone music commanded by Hector Apreza of Insolent Paradox arose a few months ago, a lineup included members of Dead Roses, Axiom and Sudan was even announced, but apparently the project crashed and after a while it resurrected as this:



Merkin Muffley - Untitled

Genres this mess could be categorized under
Shoegaze/noise/drone/post-rock

Length: 45 minutes

1 - If
2 - 1983
3 - Melt
4 - 16-22
5 - How to Love the Bomb
6 - Wild Life
7 - Stop!

After Human (fifth and newest album of his main band, Insolent Paradox), Hector Apreza comes with an even more stripped down project, with the backbone to this album being just fuzzy guitar distortion and sampling. The album was released for free download on Insolent Paradox's site, and will only be available on vynil through order on that same site.

The first half of the album relies more heavily on the first, while How to Love the Bomb samples the cult film Dr Strangelove, (the title of the song being a portion of film's subtitle, and the project's name being a character on such film) with guitar undergoing the tons of effects Apreza uses since Thoughtcrime (fourth album of his main band) and a soft drum beat reminiscent of The Jesus & Mary Chain's drum machines on the background, Wild Life, the sixth song samples sounds of animals creating a twisted melody over hard-edged percussion, somewhat as Desert Search For Techno Allah by Mr Bungle, but with you know.. birds and frogs fucking, 16-22 shows a love for perfectly crafted melodies, and it is clearly influenced by Velvet Underground, without the lyrics, well with lyrics, but that dont mean anything, then they are not lyrics precisely... more as vocalization stuff and stuff, If, the album's opening track is mostly done on MIDI, which gives it a Burzum sound, though oriented towards post-rock, and Melt is the most prominent example of distorted guitars and feedback on the album, since it is 8 minutes of precisely that, and while given the habits of Insolent Paradox you could expect a long, epic track in Stop!, this is one of the most anticlimatic moments in the history of music, consisting entirely of.... white noise.