Displaying more than a mere rehash of aging formulas, the creative audio blurring mixed with faded samples, turbulent bass and colliding melodies keeps the entire package on route and in constant motion.
UK resident Tom Box (aka Human Error) delivers Finite for CRL Studios, a subtle yet fierce foray into industrialized wastelands and mid-summer city-scape panoramas. Each piece on this debut projects gorgeously orchestrated electronic distortion contrasted with soundtrack driven lushness that strives to be heard. Displaying more than a mere rehash of aging formulas, the creative audio blurring mixed with faded samples, turbulent bass and colliding melodies keeps the entire package on route and in constant motion. Sure, elements of Kattoo break through along the way—a stressed point of view hinting at the trials and tribulations of life—though time doesn’t stand still on Finite‘s use of ambient fluttering and electrified data crunching. Flourishing in its own pathway, these thirteen slices of nostalgia reveal definitive (post-industrial) electronics, mind altering vistas, technoid shapes and a knack for foraging synthetic bleeps and blips without sounding overtly mechanical. Where human emotion (and/or error) naturally balances how mankind moves forward, Finite keeps itself firmly etched in the back of your mind, adhering to a plethora of frustrations and exposing light and dark in an attempt to let you know everything’s going to be okay. Fans of the more aggressive side of Tympanik Audio and Signifier will certainly gravitate towards this finite vision of deconstructed sounds.
Finite is available on CRL Studios. Buy at Human Error Bandcamp page.
