- Dominick Fernow is really mixing it up on the latest Prurient album. No longer just grabbing his synthesiser and knocking out your front teeth with it and then screaming at you for good measure, he's got all sorts of levels of intensity in play on Bermuda Drain. I should qualify that: all those levels are still intense, fricking intense, but now there's also things like quiet intensity and even, maybe, beauty. The title track to the album is a great exemplar: spacey synths are accentuated with rolling snares providing a mind-bending backdrop to Fernow talking, almost whispering in your ear, which is spine-tingling in itself and only amplified by the nearly inaudible rave beat thundering somwhere in the distance. Some have suggested that Fernow's membership in the rather catchy and popular new-wave outfit Cold Cave have softened him up a bit, but don't worry you noise-meisters Bermuda Drain is still full of screaming bloody murder that you won't have to go very far to find. It is the willingness to experiment and produce some excitingly new sounds, however, which is lifting Prurient to another level.