EP REVIEW: MORIATY – Pure Filth

Shane | 1 February 2017 | Reply

EP REVIEW: MORIATY – Pure Filth
Easy Action Records
2016
Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar
7 ½ /10

If the title and Barbie-and-Ken-S&M cover lead you to expect some sleazy action in the grooves of the Devon two-piece “who occasionally flirt with other musicians,” then you’d be spot on the money – but in a more dirty neo industrial way than in a glammy sleaze rock way.

Featuring Jordan West and Matthew Partridge, Moriaty come at you right between the eyes like a truck full of danger driven by an anarchist on mescaline.

Opener Pure Filth is all powerhouse drums and powderkeg riffs, and features a spoken word passage inspired by French erotic intellectual Georges Bataille, voiced by Sophia Johnstone.

Garage Of Sin is mellower, moodier – what Nine Inch Nails might sound like with only a White Stripes-like guitar and drums configuration – before Pulp Fiction actually takes you into White Stripes territory, with added ‘pants around our ankles’ lyrics.

Closer Think You’re Hard? is possibly the filthiest of the lot, and ramps the noise up to Eleven with devastating effect. Tailor-made for chanting the refrain “but you’re not, you’re a c**t” loudly, it ends Pure Filth on a nicely dirty note, and making us want to hear more from these reprobates.