A meticulously crafted album of definitive range, scope, and color, these dozen interconnected audio impressions grab the attention of time and space, shifting and skittering about.
Ultimately a creative starburst
Here we find ALEPH (aka Burlington-based Kai Maynard) creating otherworldly sci-fi glitch electronics with tinges of sandblasted techno, bass, beats, ambient, piano, and garage soundscapes. Emotively charged, rugged and rampant with abstract grooves, each piece is punctuated by decomposed layers toppled one above the other and in the most exquisite shapes. And yet with such an influx of sonic debris, there’s a brittleness about EGO DEATH—various echoes and shattered melodies blend into each other. Larger than life low-end fractures, scattered beats and atmospheric moods carve a path that as the press release accurately states are relentless, raw, and authentic. Mind boggling to the nth degree, EGO DEATH is an exploratory soundtrack filled with strange and beautiful rhythms crashing through the cosmos. A meticulously crafted album of definitive range, scope, and color, these dozen interconnected audio impressions grab the attention of time and space, shifting and skittering about—ultimately a creative starburst and an essential album gravitating to the outer edges.
EGO DEATH is available on Renraku. [Bandcamp]
