There’s a rolling, inchoate feel to Descended Hope that gives way to perceiving and understanding the subtler transitions in the pieces.
A bristling, noisy pocket of sound
Descended Hope by Tapage & Espoir is a bristling, noisy pocket of sound hurtling itself through the maelstrom on the edge of a steel wool sound. There’s a rolling, inchoate feel to it that gives way to perceiving and understanding the subtler transitions in the pieces. Scratching static gives way to howling wind-tunnels filled with ghosts of dead pilots on their final voyage in “illness first.” The rumble of a nuclear detonation shreds the woofers of your mind in “empty ways” as waves of feedback crackle into binary debris. “Retracted decision” throbs and hums like dead turbines in the depths of a haunted base on the moon until the black cloud of shrieking noise levels off into a hum.
“cold steps” traces a thunderstorm across the void of a derelict industrial landscape overshadowed by dark clouds and ruins of lost transmissions, as a cold clear whistle marks the end of the final shift. “absence falling” is the sound of an industrial waterfall on a choked river, screeching machines and roaring turbines malfunctioning over and over. “bright sorrow” is a relatively quiet, somber piece of clicking delays and thuds reverberating over the old canals of an abandoned mill plant, the swan song of a long dead industrial age. Closing the album is “engulfed standstill” where drones circles while metallic wasps hover languidly over burning lands.
Descended Hope is available on Ant-Zen. [Bandcamp]
