While on the outside one might consider Where We Will Never Go as a darkened electronic mesh of styles, it also contains sublime textures that weave into and out of focus throughout.
Mimetic formulates Where We Will Never Go with a subdued fury. A wash of bass, industrial, analog synths, crackling rhythms and aggressive percussion make for a solid and quite varied mixture of electronics. “Synthetize Me” does just that, albeit with a buzzing buildup.”Game In Land” offers up tantilizingly warm ambient synth noodling, light bells and bleeps in rhythmic fashion as “Sang Numérique” breaks apart post-industrial swarms of low-end, grit and otherworldly chants—an avalanche of hardened synth darkness. “The Basis of any Conflict” maintains an analog surplus of blips’n bleeps much in tune with Meat Beat Manifesto, a haze of machines streaming their calls to each other. “One Of Us” is a vocal monster of bass, distortion and eerily contagious industrial dark-hop warfare with Niveau Zero performing a heavily disjointed remix dub for which will surely have floor boards splitting at the edges. The title track veers into an industrial-goth dance floor stomper of lyrical blackness as “Scaffolding” elicits another tweaked bass throb and opens with a peculiar sampling of baby coos. Not forgetting the additional remix support, Mika Vainio revamps the title track—shortened to “w.w.w.never.go”—with a microscopic dissection of exploratory low-flying particles, clicks and droned noises in the vain of Scanner. Mira Calix takes the brittle melodic chords of “Sparkling Love” and attaches an evolved classical slant that floats in spacious circles of slowed down rhythm, treated vocal stretches and bubbling downtempo flavors.
While on the outside one might consider Where We Will Never Go as a darkened electronic mesh of styles, it also contains sublime textures that weave into and out of focus throughout.
Where We Will Never Go is available on Hymen. [Release page | Bandcamp]
