Raw, sheer power is expelled in unison with more tranquil and emotional mind benders; cold beats are coated with warm melodies and time just slips away as this long-player presents the finest moments from a melting pot of genres that clearly encapsulates sound, vision, art and life.
[Purchase] Incorporating a wide range of genres (post-industrial, shoegaze, drone, experimental, IDM) and exceeding at each with a careful balance, Drifting In Silence unleashes what may very well be the quintessential life sounds the title depicts. This being the fourth proper album, DIS have matured since Fallto (2009) with the amalgamation of more live instruments and layers upon layers of peculiar sound bytes dripping from the canvass.
Derrick Stembridge, the force behind DIS has described his view of genre-mixing; “The goal is to create an environment where all of these types of music can live together (like stones skipping across waves of sound). That’s why I went down the path of genre mixing.” This analogy couldn’t be any closer to the truth as Lifesounds creates more of a visual platform for the listener to absorb; the ambient moments pulling you in just as chiseled beats begin to take shape. It’s all quite inspiring as DIS takes you from one end of the spectrum to the other, gradually.
With that in mind, it takes a few listens to properly digest this full length due to its scope of sound; there are even a few moments of obstruction as one particular style keeps you locked in just as another is introduced. Descriptive audio chapters are prevalent on Lifesounds reading like a novel advancing from one short story to the next. Time shifts and drifts silently, almost transparently, as atmospheric undertones glide alongside their percussive counterparts. Raw, sheer power is expelled in unison with more tranquil and emotional mind benders; cold beats are coated with warm melodies and time just slips away as this long-player presents the finest moments from a melting pot of genres that clearly encapsulates sound, vision, art and life. Lifesounds is all the above, meshed with all that resides below the surface.
Lifesounds is out now on Labile. [Purchase]
