Who Bang The Noise offers fifteen tracks, tangling a myriad of found sounds, subtle clicks, and atmospheric layers traversing an emotional power.
Skittering electronic flutter and evocative audio works
London-based producer elshuffles returns with his sophomore album accurately described as a melting-pot of influences from techno, ambient, drone, and electronica. Who Bang The Noise delivers fifteen tracks tangling a myriad of found sounds, subtle clicks, and atmospheric layers traversing an emotional power (“The Ends”) to more desolate and crumbling soundscapes (“My Isolation”) and dense Fennesz-like dissipation (“Them”). While the plethora of strangely captivating noises bend and deform (“Hearts And Thoughts”), elshuffles finds comfort in obscure sonic forms and micro-melodic fibers (“Snapshot”) as drifting drones and ghostly technoid elements evolve out of thin air like early Plastikman works (“Lost For A While” and “Give Me A Reason”). These sporadic sonic spaces unfold on Who Bang The Noise, shifting glitch-like flares (“Inquisitive Without You”) and darker sputtering rhythms (“(Busy) Livin”) where fractured vocals hover ever so slightly. Overall, an unusually captivating collection of skittering electronic flutter and evocative audio works that simply evaporate.
Who Bang The Noise is available on Safety. [Bandcamp]
