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CD releases :

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• infraction (1997)

• jungle / met / bull lay / five / inside b / little eye / spine / phisto / new drug / webbed / transport / x-ray

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• Distance Runner (2000)

• fragment / without size / jazz bordeaux / j.g. / electronic / stationary vet / dick / approach / marseille / passing trucks / from a lay-by / flexion / walk / distance runner

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• 168k (2007)

• psychotrance / hi fi / white lie / soda wars / hey condition / dirt jungle / rope / field

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• Western Front (2012)

on game / oui window / helium / industry / silent way / later / induction / calibrate / hoat / let's forget

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Available from :

Ektro records / Rough Trade Shop / cd baby / other music

Distributors : Ektro / forte distribution / revolver

Dial are :

• Jacqui Ham : guitar and vocals
• Rob Smith : guitar and drum machine
• Dom Weeks : bass guitar & synthesizer
• Luciano Ciccotelli : drums

all music by Dial
words and vocals by Jacqui Ham

awesome psychedelic skulldrill noise rock damage / life affirming basement grunt / crystalline, fractured guitar tones and feedback buildup / blurry free noise rituals / Skullflower-esque drone rock / drum-machine powered noise rock weirdness / almost psychedelic folk area / weird overmodulated robo noise rock / atonal No Wave bleat / like Dead C having a collective nervous breakdown / totally murky noise rock / improvised, sludgy splat / ill-tempered guitar-shredding and locomotive-rhythmed attack / haphazard bursts of ferocious electronic gunfire and spastic, uneven backbeats / atmospheric and abstract improv-based compositions / deconstructed twisted wall of noise, distortion and feedback with rock structure / assaultive guitar din / spectral and brutal / low-end patina of electrical interference / a blurred-out, ghost-in-the-machine howl / abrasive noise / oddly meditative controlled chaos / surging, incantatory hardscrabble, coiled, densely imagistic lyrics / fitful, rhythmic tartness / tempest-tossed wail / contorted noise / an immensity of scale and space / precision / monumental, glacial force / heavily claustrophobic / looming intensity and livid emotion / a killer post-No Wave mash of grimy guitar, drum machine, bass, synth / sneering and druggy / alien-sounding vox / rumbling, looped tonalities / unidentifayble instruments / garage rock played with a fully-liberated mindset / a boozier, bluesier Half Machine Lip Moves by Chrome / a lustrous, cracked-mirror mantra / ferociously primitive garage brut / classic NY scum feel / sound like pretty much no one / tremulous low-end noise / the new force in guitar primitivism