In this new creative journey Monocube provides uncompromising and utterly bleak soundscapes built on echoing sound textures, industrial noises and synthesized waving drones. The whole thing is deeply suggestive, fundamentally austere, turbulent, dense, captivating and hauntingly cinematic. Substratum can easily compete among best industrial ambient releases and beatless morose electronic album of the year.
I discovered this Ukrainian deep drone, power-industrial, and entrancing ambient combo back in 2016 with their mindblowing album The Rituals published for Malignant (2017). The project found a new home at Cyclic Law and Malignant—timeless underground indie labels and among finest purveyors of dark ambient oddities from iconic bands to promising newcomers in the genre. In this new creative journey Monocube provides uncompromising and utterly bleak soundscapes built on echoing sound textures, industrial noises and synthesized waving drones. The whole thing is deeply suggestive, fundamentally austere, turbulent, dense, captivating and hauntingly cinematic. The perfect post-apocalyptic soundtrack for modern day decadence, a blissed-out charming inferno, and an electronic canticle for sorrowful journeys deep into the mind. Substratum is an enthralling gloomy electronic album with plenty of delicate and touchingly immersive, shifting moods. If you want a new inspiring dose of flowing, ominous, intoxicating, and cavernous ambient sound sculptures, this album is for you. Substratum can easily compete among best industrial ambient releases and beatless morose electronic album of the year. Recommended for fans of Yen Pox, Archon Satani, Treha Sektori, and Phragments.
Substratum is available on Malignant and Cyclic Law.
