Brutal angular machine teeth are bared from needle drop to run out.
Abstract Forms 303 wing is back for 2014 with a new name. Abstract Acid introduce Etcher. He’s an artist I’ve come across before, serving a smooth piece of Electro on Sweden’s Romb Records. But now for the UK imprint Etcher is presenting his first full EP, Polytom Dusk, and smoothness is not the offering.
Fierce coils are isolated by clinical beats for the removed “Biomimik.” Sounds are distilled, boiled down into stark essentials. “Phantasmal Acid” blends the formulae of Electro and House, claps and warmer tones countered by a cruel coldness. The title track opens the flip. Distance is the aim. Emotion is drawn away, inhuman chords estranging the listener as terse percussion snaps. That distance is maintained for “Clever Swine.” Remote squawk is given a sinister slant with galvanising percussion and bolstering bass. “Transistormusik” is the final installment, juddering, morphing Acid to end the aggression.
Polytom Dusk is stark and stripped. Brutal angular machine teeth are bared from needle drop to run out. Warm moments are soon consumed by a bitter lime-eyed Electro evil. Bruised beats and blunt bars further bludgeoned by thuggish 303 behavior. Harsh music to torment floors.
Polytom Dusk is available on Abstract Acid.
