Nosferatu Pharmaceuticals – Banishes Groundless Fear, Wretchedness and Thoughts of Self Destruction

The Wasp, EDP’s most (in)famous synthesizer, has been a staple of bizarro electronica for over thirty years, but it’s doubtful that anyone has made use of it in as unsettling a fashion as the nightmarish duo of Lea Cummings and Sarah Glass (AKA. Kylie Minoise and Grimalkin 555, respectively) do here, manipulating its flimsy body to produce an incessant stream of Giallo tension that takes Goblin’s sound, strips away the fat and beefs it up with niggling sci-fi claustrophobia.

It may be one of the most calculated projects that Cummings has tried his hand at in recent years, but as a consequence it’s one of the most curiously absorbing as well, the duo’s rhythmic use of simple synth lines coupled with a love of bass frequencies that are oppressive to the point of panic-inducing leaving the same choked feeling as could be expected from a splatter-movie marathon. In short, bloodily awesome.