This strangely and mysteriously moving compilation album brilliantly honors the gloomy and surreal atmospherics of Lynch’s early experimental film masterpiece, Eraserhead.
Reviews
kaoshipnótico :: Ascensores, aeropuertos, escaleras, ahorcamientos, castraciones (earsheltering)
Rather than relying on brute force, kaoshipnótico crafts dynamic tension across the album’s jagged structure. Found sounds, metallic screeches, circuit-bent textures, and industrial rumble all collide in waves of distortion that suggest both panic and ritual.
The Mellowtrons :: Protected EP (Voidstar Productions) — [concise]
A frenetic voltage crackles—diffuse yet finely honed into serrated, dub-drenched silhouettes—across Protected by The Mellowtrons (aka Lee Walker).
Tom Hall :: Trip Computer (Sonoptik)
Tom Hall sculpts granular textures and rhythmic fragments into form—an exercise in data compression through tactile, resonant frequencies. Bass pulses, tonal debris, and percussive detail coalesce into a focused, razor-sharp sound world. Each track breathes with emotion, even as it lives inside the circuitry.
Snowbeasts & Solypsis :: Extinction Burst (Component)
Despite a 2,500-mile distance and sprawling solo discographies, Snowbeasts and Solypsis operate here as if face-to-face—crushing boundaries, igniting audio wreckage, and forging bold new altars of sound.
Terrace :: Branches (De:tuned)
The 2LP draws on the past while delivering a considered statement on the present. This is deep and engrossing music, tracks that have been given time to grow and mature under the ear of a pioneer of machine music.
Hexalyne :: Isoconicase (Noided Media)
If Richard Devine and Autechre trace similar constellations in the sonic firmament, Hexalyne orbits his own peculiar void—an architect of abrasive beauty, leading a procession of rhythmic contortion through the digital underworld.
Michael Valentine West :: Liquid architecture (Evel)
These works feel like sonic residue from a scorched reality—assembled gradually, layer upon layer, into contemplative yet fractured shapes. MVW crafts immersive, multidimensional pieces where evolving sound design breathes slowly, alternately swelling and dissipating, constructing only to deconstruct.
Galaktlan :: Helemental (Touched Music)
Helemental doesn’t shout; it glides. It evokes connection not through force but through familiarity—like stumbling upon a memory long tucked away, warm and faintly glowing. This is an album that hums gently with presence, a quiet reminder that something beautiful still lingers, waiting to be heard.
Sounding :: Cielo Stellato (EQ)
Cielo Stellato expands and morphs with a floating shift from mystical abstraction to digital solemnity, capturing the essence of sonic energy and universal wisdom—taking listeners on an exciting new venture into the realms of sound and multidimensional entities.
8cylinder :: Snapped Bones EP (Unmapped North) — [concise]
Brief by design, Snapped Bones doesn’t linger—it strikes, drills, and exits, leaving behind scorched circuits and a lasting imprint of mechanized destruction.
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