Femme Under Plastic is a collaboration between noise giant Richard Ramirez and old-timer of the scene, though a number of projects behind Ramirez, Ella Einsmire. This time the album, released in 2008 by Chi Omega Institute, lasting for more than 30 minutes and entitled Masked Solution spins in CD player. As a whole, it is a rather static desert of noise, which will cheer up the fans of wall noise. At the very beginning, the sound distribution disturbs and creeps out a little, especially while listening through the headphones. Thick "Ramirez"-like rough noise sounds at the left ear and at the right one hardly heard melody plays through a little thinner layer of mud and noise. From time to time it clearly comes to surface, louder than noisy din. At the 5th minute Femme Under Plastic convinces that it was not just glitches of mind and "sounds from somewhere" and the noise from the left side becomes calmer and softer. That contrast lets you hear the chaotic change of melody better. From this place the sound itself become choked and only in places harsher or noisier elements come into surface. Up to the very middle of the album the noise varies every few minutes from rich and deep sound to flat and sharp to some rather (un)pleasant spacy atmosphere. At the middle of the album the sound become stronger and until the very end leads the listener by the coarse noise wall without a thing where to seize. Just the last 40 seconds of chapping and drilling through sound make you feel very unpleasantly and can easily cause attack of asthma. Just after listening of this album I took randomly several albums of Ramirez. And yes, the sound in this album is very thick and massive - it is not the fraud of ears. The fans of static noise or of these two symbols of noise scene should like this album. And it should find it's place not only in the shelves to collect dust. Anyways, I haven't heard anything unique or special during the whole half an hour. But what could you expect from the collaboration of these two old-timer of the scene - good, high quality and strong noise. And that sounds in the album. Suffocating under the multilayered plastic.

Format: CDr
Released: 2008
Label: Chi Omega Institute