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Ominous and deep, EROSION is a chasmic drone, twisting away in several warped layers, including what seems to have been a vocal chant (and maybe a goat?).
Considerably airier, tough still murky, SURGERY II simmers in a bed of electronic haze and a heartbeat rhythm; a distorted set of repeating samples eventually makes themselves clear.
Expect sonic surrealism when traversing COLLAPSING SURFACE (13:56); backed by a thudding, mechanical rhythm, a strummy, clunky foreground loop is suffused with deep dragon's breath and softer tweedles and machine hum. All evolves, though never straying too far from its original course, then quietly dissipates.
Like a musical phantasm from some haunted parlour, the reprocessed organ dirge of HOW LOW... is a melancholy beauty. A distantly low-fi vocal is backed by fluttering Gothic (and processed) keyboarding. Truly the odd piece out, YOU'RE JUST A TOY (2:43) is a 1940's style duet assumedly borrowed from someone's old 78-rpm record or from an old movie. It's a non-politically-correct love song, played straight without any notable sonic alterations. Its end is marked by the very sudden beginning of the next track...
Not the hissy chaos you might expect, STATIC establishes a groove of its own by way of a constant loop of thunderous clatter. Poundingly industrial, this machine serves one function in one preset mode, and when it's done, abruptly stops. Less bombastic, FAINT RETARD delivers another round of cyclical patterns of semi-musical tones and rhythmic thumps operating on several layers
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