A meticulously prepared and refined dark ambient release which has all ingredients to make a masterpiece in the genre: shifting drones, cavernous noises, bleak industrial tones, metallic reverbs, distant ghostly frequencies, sorrowing, ethereal, entrancing melodious patterns. Competing for the best dark ambient album of the year.
Tobias Hornberger (aka False Mirror) is one notorious sound artist in the subterranean dark ambient galaxy. He has produced just a few albums in more than ten years but always made with a great care and an achieving sense of composition. I first discovered this project with the release Derelict World published by Malignant a handful of years ago. For its subtly sculpted, shimmering, transportive and Dantesque atmospheres this one made a very good impression. Eight years separate this amazing release from his new effort, also welcomed by Malignant. If you liked the industrial and deeply evocative shifting drones of Derelict World you won’t be disappointed by SIGINT. This is one meticulously prepared and refined dark ambient release which has all ingredients to make a masterpiece in the genre: shifting drones, cavernous noises, bleak industrial tones, metallic reverbs, distant ghostly frequencies, sorrowing, ethereal, entrancing melodious patterns. SIGINT is a corpus of beatific, utterly dark, spectral and fabulous sonic waves. This one can definitely compete for the best dark ambient album of the year. A very ambitious, staggering and perfectly arranged work for a landmark industrial ambient album. One very successful come back. Easily recommended for fans of ambient isolationism, deep listening and blissed out soundscapes.
SIGINT is available on Malignant.
