Get hooked on Sister Blanche's When a Drug Becomes a Cult

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      When a Drug Becomes a Cult (Gary Cassettes)

      When a Drug Becomes a Cult is the fifth release from local sound manipulator Sister Blanche since last December, another quick fix for listeners looking for a right twisted, ambient terrorscape.

      “This Pain Is Real” eases us into a false sense of security with its New Age moans and ritualistic drums, but the artist otherwise known as Morgan Cook upends the comfort with what sounds like a microphone being dragged across sheet metal, and chilling, backward-masked incantations. More unsettling is “Tidal Wave of Discontent”, which bounces between surf’s-up drum rolls gone monstrously askew and horror-movie minimalism.

      Beyond the title track, a No Wave experiment in theremin-driven tension, most of the pieces on When a Drug Becomes a Cult hover around the two-minute mark. Each is just a taste of what the cult of Sister Blanche can offer.

      The ghostly approach could have many leery of its leader, but if you’re prone to space out to sinister sounds, you’ll be hooked.

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