A whirling patchwork of disconnected sound sources and blips that nevertheless work well together.
Surreal aural worlds
With four tracks spanning 30 minutes on Infrastrictura, the Maine-based industrial electronics sculptor returns and continues to push the envelope with surreal aural worlds. Yet, CRT (aka Charles/Chang Turhune) creates downtempo rhythms that effortlessly bend and twist despite the darker, piercing beats and synth work (see “Grief Is Scum On The Water.”) You’ll struggle to find any breathing room elsewhere as “Two Different Stories About The Same Place” creates a whirling patchwork of disconnected sound sources and blips that nevertheless work well together.
The final two tracks are what really grab our attention. “Dismantling The Ghost” has a robotic, warped rhythm that builds into hundreds of intertwined layers, while “Boeing Boing Bong” has delicate melodic fractures that, over the course of its eight minutes, seem to collapse and regenerate themselves. Simply baffling.
Infrastrictura is available on Condition:Human. [Bandcamp]
