Dilapidated soundscapes, broken beats, peculiar conversations, funky shapeshifting, and crunch-hop elements collide in these brisk moments cut with a diamond blade into 18 pieces.
Clanging and splintered audio mechanics
Aelk Minsur‘s crumpled electronics continue to expand and unfold; having gathered found-sounds from construction sites on the Olympus WS-500M, you can definitely hear rhythmic movements scrape across clanging and splintered audio mechanics. The harsher elements of Aelk Minsur’s structures are pushed to the forefront on Everything is a Nail—dilapidated soundscapes, broken beats, peculiar conversations, funky shape-shifting, and crunch-hop elements collide in these brisk moments cut with a diamond blade into 18 pieces.
The rough textures that bend and twist throughout are highlighted by the artists’ fascination with glitched-out dark drums that take each track to an eerie level. Everything is a Nail‘s abstract nature, presented in 30 to 180-second range, still manage to create a storyline, albeit an arcane one. Taking us through Scorn-infested downtempo avenues, where a myriad of construction noises become a blur, Aelk Minsur traverses multi-layered experiments—dabbling within and outside of illbient, industrial hip-hop, glitch, IDM, and disheveled bass music from the outer edges. Not out of place for fans of Errorgrid, Skam, and Ohm Resistance.
Everything is a Nail is available on Bandcamp.
