Meat Load heads to bat with a viceral, mind-numbing 19-track album aptly titled Glitchmania—an expansive collection that ventures through a variety of broken electro fragments, heavy robotic bass, and crunchy beatwork. Modular machinery and scorched electronics at the forefront, the inevitable glitch infusion is fully present, yet doesn’t manage to lose its focus.
Meat Load heads to bat with a viceral, mind-numbing 19-track album aptly titled Glitchmania—an expansive collection that ventures through a variety of broken electro fragments, heavy robotic bass, and crunchy beatwork. Modular machinery and scorched electronics at the forefront, the inevitable glitch infusion is fully present, yet doesn’t manage to lose its focus. A few tangled melodic moments evolve and devolve, breaking down and recombining to form new abstract structures along the way. A slew of data processing merges with microscopic blips and bleeps as each track disperses its sonic slivers of IDM, breaks, and mechanical disarray. A nod to past and present artists that continue to disassemble vast soundscapes such as Autechre, Datacrashrobot/Randomform, and Valance Drakes, Glitchmania is another fine example of an artist pushing the distorted audio envelope further, without venturing too far off the glitch beaten path.
Glitchmania is available on People Can Listen.
