An album of sped up rhythmic shadows that captivates the listener with its ravaged sonic scope and barely gives us time to take a breather.
An avalanche of braindance noise
An album packed with flexible electronics and darker shades, ANORAK’s Antisocial bounces and bubbles across the landscape as earlier IDM gems did back in the day. Take “Addictis Euro Psalm” and its glowing glitch and acid breaks that pummel the senses with tiny melodic jabs hitting us from all angles as the aptly titled “Gearfunk” flows through downtempo and fractured rhythm blasts. “Gearfunk 5,” however, weaves a similar dark thread—syncopated beat shuffling and synth blips run rampant as the title track is a baffling, full speed ahead, avalanche of braindance noise and mechanical drum’n bass fury. An album of sped up rhythmic shadows that captivates the listener with its ravaged sonic scope and barely gives us time to take a breather.
Music by John Wells aka Anorak
Artwork by Jean-Baptiste Reulet
Mastering by Julien “Stazma” Guillot at the Electric Voyage Studio
Antisocial is available on Concrete Collage. [Bandcamp]
