SVT kollektiv
Black Beats & Deadly Loops
“Black Beats & Deadly Loops” is the sixth album by SVT, a collective of sonic machines and instruments hidden away in an industrial site lost in the middle of nowhere. The perfect place to record the ideal soundtrack for a world feasting on its own ruins.
"Black Beats & Deadly Loops" is a descent into a basement inferno, where saturated sounds swirl in a storm of echoes, drones, pounding drum machines, twisted synths, and screaming guitars.
The sonic assault of the entire album represents a way to reinvent the very concept of lo-fi music: no longer a marginal resistance to the mainstream, but a new mainstream in itself – this is the pop of our times!
The rock’n’roll spirit is everywhere, but never nostalgic – think more time-warped hallucination than retro throwback. The many references are not just influences, but quotes that transfigure memories of the past into a Polaroid shot sent from the future.
Lyrics come in bursts: based on instant improvisation and free associations of meanings, sounds, and slips of the tongue, they often form fragments of nonsense that reflect a landscape ruled by cynicism, redemption, violence, and self-indulgent seclusion.
The journey begins with “Rock’n’Roll Reclusion”, a call to retreat into the underground, into a rock’n’roll basement full of shadows, dissonant frequencies, and wild pleasures.
Then come the martial rhythms of “Leave Your Hand on The Stove”, and the dissonant violins and tribal cadences of “Black Metal (Beat ‘Em Dogs)”, taking the trip into darker, more sinister territory.
“Ramble On, Rejoyce!” is a drugged-out, ecstatic rockabilly tune spewed from the broken speaker of a damp, forgotten transistor radio.
The album ends with a hypnotic cover of Lou Reed’s “Banging On My Drum”, a repetitive, alienated anthem to masturbatory idiocy—the final act of a tragicomic performance that leaves the listener with a dazed, goofy smile on their face.
The face imprinted in the Polaroid portrait of someone who’s just been hit by a storm of Black Beats & Deadly Loops.
Come on – play inside, stay inside!
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