Quiet Husband

Quiet Husband

Raging Habits II

Quiet Husband

Richie Culver’s noisy alter ego Quiet Husband returns with a second ‘Raging Habits’ volume, a compelling new batch of girder-strength club bangers via sweeping orchestral grot x devastating noise. Sibling to a fiendishly limited pressing of his first ‘Raging Habits’ last year, the follow-up yields a fritzed session veering between poles of commando noise assault of ‘Army Crawl’, to relatively sparkling techno in the poised dub chords and swing of ‘Dream Pills’, and proper warehouse pounder in ‘Docker’ that both speak diectly to his DJ practice. The best bits are reserved to the LP's gooier centre, with the sublime ambient tension of ‘Death Happens Here’ that threatens to break into more seething feels bordering on Tim Hecker levels of blurred euphoria, and in a dankly brackish ace ‘At Your Worst’ operating on the cusp of Lussuria’s gothic ambient.