6. Pedestrian Deposit - Fatale [Hospital/Hanson]

Alone in a room with the brightest of white lights. It's never, ever dark here. The edges of the room are razorblade sharp, the floor seems transparent, drenched in sulphuric acid. Small glass tubes filled with a hallucinatory substance litter the floors. Step on one of them and for a moment you might think you've found pandora's box of sweet melodies. It's no coincidence this record is called Fatale. It might scar you for life.

Fatale is the magical work of Jon Borges also known as Pedestrian Deposit and dude behind the beautiful Monorail Trespassing label. A guy who's made harsh noise with extreme contrasts his business and no one succeeds so gloriously in this than Borges. Fatale is a sinister game between torture and romance, harsh mindfucks and sweet lullabys. It's raging brutality decorated with brief moments of reflection. Check the chamber piano during 'You Can't Help Me', surrounded by sputtering electronics it plays the contrast game like no other. Ambient electronics introduce 'Mascara' as something Dutch drone wizard Machinefabriek could have made but gets quickly interrupted by a looming noise drone that transforms into a metallic creepers symphony.

Much harsher on the behind is opener 'Svelte', slowly starting like a messed up Fennesz track. Grainy noisescapes stuffed with high end screech 'n scuzz, it's got some Whitehouse body without being too conscious about it. No lyrics or whatsoever either so there's just the fucked up ambience that gets to you. Throughout the year I kept coming back to this album, as if I would find some secret passages that I heard tiny bits by on previous listens. A mirage of melody, Fatale is one of those noise records that make a whole genre worth existing. This is the breath of noise.