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And when I say "beaty", be assured there are no mundane disco beats, but more often scattershot Drum 'n' Bass-styled artistry which propel these mechanical-ish shards from some gloomy robotic future.
After the spooky opening of Cords., good 'n' crunchy thuds set the pace
for D 'n' B antics laced with buzzy shreds of noise, and later,
faintly wafting female vocals. Light beats lead toward the Fountain.
where rythmic mechanical-ish sounds click, clatter and whirr. Spoken
samples may a trifle overused, but otherwise faint synths drift across a
sparse, though mildly chaotic expanse. It's quieter, though busy, in
Churches. (8:49); it's fascinating how so many elements can be brought
together without seeming too overloaded... irradiating synth
resonance, tiny squeaks, distant clatter, hazy voices, ringing phones
and more converge into a impressively busy-yet-subdued electrohaze.
The elastically tortured and detuned tones which open Monitor. are
simply too annoying to be heard ambiently, though eventually mellow into
something much smoother, peppered with odd little beats, bells and floating
sinewaves. More aggressive percussion and gruffly thrumming bass marks RVO., a zone of electrical drones and rippling effects are riddled with mod percussion hits, occasional samples which seamlessly becomes... Shelf. (4:56) where a quick little rhythm is
accented by floating bits of electronic detritus. Screechier flares erupt to be overcome by tinny organ blares emitting through the beats.
With underlying electric cicada warbles, the ghostly cut 'n' paste drifts Stem. are riddled with a staccato barrage of breakbeats and cymbal
riffs, as well as blasted with sci-fi phaser rays. Perhaps the most strictly ambient atmospheres are found in the opening minutes of the beatless iIllumination.; gauzey sheets of reprocessed choir sounds waver and binaurally oscillate with shimmering punctuations of fragmented whispers, which grow more obtrusive as the track evolves.
Relatively straightforward chiming tones lead into Labyrinths., a
somberly ringing structure laced with bells and eventually, minor beats.
Shifting pitches, ecclesiastically chanting voices and assorted odd effects add the
twists in this intriguing musical maze.
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