This mysterious UK psychedelic space rock collective return with this sprawling three track 12" that displays a whole 'nother side to these faves. Whereas before, we typically aligned Gnod with groups like White Hills, and Carlton Melton, and the Heads, on these three tracks, they delve into a twisted strain of dark electronics, which to a certain degree still retain some of the psychedelia and spaciness of past outings, but here, those elements are woven into a pulsing landscape of murk and slow shifting texture, a sort of primitive psychedelic house music really, the opener is all sequenced pulse and throb, beneath a slow swirl of greyed out shimmer, and underpinned by deep rumbling low end, mesmerizingly motorik and minimal, not danceable per se, but certainly still some sort of mutant electronica, which on in "20 Sides A Minute" unfurls into an epic stretch of minimal skitter, percolating synth sputter beneath a slowed down four on the floor rhythm, the surrounding sounds swirling drowsily from speaker to speaker, the sounds growing darker and more minimal as the track progresses, sort of reminding us of Shit & Shine if they made a record for Kompakt if that makes any sense. Tripped out, and darkly meditative, with some extreme stereo panning that is definitely made for headphone trip out.
The whole of the B side is taken up by the 16+ minute "Defeatism", which starts out as a hushed drone, before revealing itself as some weird gothy new wave jam, all 303 drum machines, swirly synth pads, manic rhythmic skitter, over drifty chordal swirl and shimmery ambience, it's Gnod, so there's plenty of weirdness going on in and around and under the surface, and about half way through the sound shifts dramatically, and becomes super murky and muddy and ominous, the low end expanding into a black sonic cloud, before turning downright kosmische at one point, only to finish things off with a wild tangled of bass pulsations, fluttering skitter, and FX drenched crackle, once again swirling wildly from speaker to speaker, adding a disorienting psychedelic edge to the proceedings.
There's a certain degree of WTF? going on, but we're beginning to think these guys do actually have more in common with a group like Shit & Shine than The Heads, their focus on rhythm and texture, and achieving serious psychedelia by manipulating and sculpting the two.
There is of course a download code, which not only gets you the whole record in digital form, but also a FIFTY minute bonus track, recorded live, the band doing a similar set as to what's on the record, but a bit more rough edged and raw life, a little bit noisier and abstract, but channeling the same sort of electronic psych-kraut spirit.
Aquarius Records


Not many people might have heard about Gnod but the group tells us there is life in Manchester after Happy Mondays and Joy Division. So far residing in the alternative and krautrock camp, the collective from UK Northwest now knocks on the door of strobe-lit clubs with a new pulsating LP.
Freshly out on the Irish imprint Trensmat, "Presents..Dwellings & Druss" deviates from the classic Madchester sound as it does in relation to the conventional floor fare, still able to address the techno faction. Playing essentially in the same league with Container and Pete Swanson, the group gives us three tracks filled with controlled noise and quivering beats in synthetic glazing.
Already the opener "Revelation 9" drives up the pulse with agile synth drumming but the real highlight is "20 Sides A Minute". Firstly embraced by clasping percussion with an evil wink, a drilling sequence takes over without losing the steady beat control.
B-side is filled with a 16-minute opus called "Defeatism" which throws drone and ambient into the pot with Warp's Artificial Intelligence electronics, exposing the sonic matter to the corrosion closer to the end.
The LP's rattling and pulsating journey just confirms that in Gnod we trust, what else. And increasingly Trensmat Records deserves more attention, especially when next up on the label is wrenched electro-acid blast by The 15 Dead Minutes.
Terminal 313


We're stoked to the max cuz another killer record from the always solid Trensmat Records has come blowing through the doors!  This time out we get a total banger from Manchester's mighty morphin monks of motorik drones, GNOD! 
"Dwellings And Druss" finds GNOD opting out on guitars all together and instead are supplying hypnotic beat driven pulses of psychedelic dubbed out techno.   Blurred production adds a foggy murk to the overall sound giving it a mystique that draws the listener deeper into this acid vortex and you can straight up feel the sub-sonic rumble of bass drum blasts as swirling poly-rhythms engulf the tracks as synthesizers rush the forefront with a blitz assault of sultry slurs.  GNOD are always keepin' us on our toes as they switch up their tactics from record to record and this soporific trance inducing dose of mind flaying underwater experimental psychedelia is yet another amazing release to add to their already burgeoning back catalog.  So chalk up "Dwellings And Druss" as another winner in our books. Super Recommended.
Permanent Records


Salford trance rock five piece Gnod arent too shabby when it comes to a thick hypnotic groove. But perhaps the group have burned themselves out when it comes to the rockier end of their operation. A new 12", Presents Dwellings and Druss, concentrates solely on a strain of chasmic lo-fi Techno completley distinct from their earlier work. The cavernous spaces and immense beats of 'Revelation 9' and '20 Sides a Minute' are a successful departure, while the 49 minute bonus download 'In Orbit' bears some traces of Gnods previous incarnation - unlike the vinyl tracks, it really does sound like some rock group fumbling for the exit. But even on this live recording you can sense the group ejecting excess baggage in hope of speeding up their passage to the heart of the void.
The Wire


’Gnod presents Dwelling and Druss’ is a bit of a misnomer (though I’m still not convinced that I have this completely right) as those of you who bothered to cast an eye over our brief mention of the collectives teals tape imprint (see above) will no doubt realise, its not Gnod but then again is Gnod if you loosely get my drift, not the collective stoned out psych charge of the unit as a whole but selective elements of the hive like say Wire and all their solo projects. Two cuts from the Dwellings side of the hive mind and one from Druss with - available on the download bundle - what we gather is a mammoth 50 minute face off featuring a live mix set recorded last November. Dwellings kick off proceedings with ‘revelation 9’ - solid state sub electroid psyche immersion, murmuring pulsars usher and utter to a subterranic tongue, the melodic mainframe coded in binary blips tap out a galactic calling card into the darkening voids, like some silver skinned minimalist variant of Wagon Christ there lurks here an ever so subtle subtronic funk detailing crafted and cooled in darkly remote hyperreal techno. Druss take up the baton with ’20 sides a minute’ again scratched in a sparsely minimalist flavouring and grounded in dubbed out psychotropic techno drone, amid its sub 9 minute voyage its deceptive skin shedding form busies itself cloaking its sound craft in intricate textures showered in solar rays and terra-formic pulsars to preside over a head phonic effect that’s akin to having the contents of your head dissolving to its hypnotic brainwashing cycles. Best of the groove gouged trio is Dwellings ‘defeatism’ a 16 minute orbiting opus awash and lonesomely drifting the vast oceanic cosmic voids majestically inscribed in lushly hollowed forlorn backdrops as though fading distress calls from a long dead galactic outpost and courting towards its final gasp an oblique ‘terminator’ esque collage retooled as were by John Carpenter. As said subscribers to the vinyl edition get download codes which aside including the three aforementioned tracks for digital drop also feature a mammoth live mix set recorded at the tail end of last year. titled ‘in orbit’ it’s a hulking motorik head trip aboard the hyper galactic Gnod super cruiser for a non return guaranteed voyage into space dub techno’s black hole.
The Sunday Experience

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