The sheer magnitude of Larval Beak‘s roughened overflows spills over five succinct tracks, yet manages to convey a powerful sonic panoramic within a brisk 20 minutes.
“Performance based analog electronics”
Pulsating industrial machine?
Tribal jam from another dimension?
The perfect soundtrack for the eruption of a volcano under water?
Concrete Collage, dependably focused on exploratory electronic music mayhem, delivers an aural punch to the gut with Eric Schlappi’s five track drum’n synth manifesto opening with “Soaring Splitting” marching right into focus. The following piece, “Larval,” consumes rugged industrial techno swaths with its grit and grime while “Beak You” glitches forward with slanted electrical pulses and bleep scratches galore—like a machine trying to make sense of itself. Harsher technoid structures implode on “The View Out The Window” where rapid-fire beats and heavy distortion run rampant as the lullaby drifting closure “Falling Leaves” feels like a serene electronica flourish of light bubbles and synth strands gone awry. The sheer magnitude of Larval Beak‘s roughened overflows spills over five succinct tracks, yet manages to convey a powerful sonic panoramic within a brisk 20 minutes.
Larval Beak is available on Concrete Collage. [Bandcamp]
