The latest full length disc from The Rita continues to explore the more detailed and tactile soundscapes of deep crackling distortion and speaker-belch that Sam McKinlay dived into on the Skate / Snorkel LP and the The Voyage Of The Decima MAS disc. The Rack features two twenty-plus minute tracks of fetishistic noise made up of crackling, visceral gusts of electronic detritus and amplified crunch; where most HNW artists go for the oppressive wall-of-static approach, McKinlay makes use of silence and empty space that exists in the cracks between the blasts and blurts of hyper-distorted feedback and microphone abuse, here derived from the sounds of knives and nylon. The first piece is subtitled "Knifing And Slitting", focusing on the sound of the fabric of the universe being torn apart, an endless seam being violently ripped, the sound of tearing stretched and extended into infinity. The second (subtitled "Covering The Legs, The Feet", evoking a different sort of potential paraphilia) is only slightly less brutal, a vast smoldering sheet of black smoke and bubbling concrete that's underscored with a constant subliminal low end rumble, swarming with an infinite array of microscopic crackles and explosions. As with all of MacKinley's work, you hear strange aural hallucinations that become hyper-magnified when submerged into the extreme durations of his noisescapes, and it produces a unique effect on the listener that's very different from what anyone else is doing within the realm of HNW. Part of the Dark Icons series on Handmade Birds, this is another high quality release from The Rita that's highly recommended to enthusiasts of innovative harsh electronics. Packaged in a 5" x 5" sleeve, and limited to 300 copies.