Spooky and malevolent dronescaping complaints punctuated by grinding noises and primitive electronics are here to serve a disturbing contemplative exercise about the new world chaos, the empire of technological terror, the modern decadence made of self-destruction and oppressive fear.
Based in New York, the uncompromising and iconoclast Exabyss Records follows a relatively similar publishing line to Menstrual Recordings, Bloodlust (et al) with the release of post-apocalyptic noisy drone ambient / doomscaping artifacts but the catalog also includes a strong presence of electronic body music / electro industrial goth materials from really obscure projects.
I investigated rapidly on previous efforts published by the label, possibly that this Odour Sonour represents the most impressive post-industrial expressionist electronic facet of the production, and to my ears the most convincing in terms of sonic and bleak cinematic capacities. At a first listening experience I immediately recognized that this project is among the most valuable and relevant continuations of post-nuclear power electronics initiated by now legendary projects such as Atrax Morgue, Brighter Death Now or Maurizio Bianchi.
Spooky and malevolent dronescaping complaints punctuated by grinding noises and primitive electronics are here to serve a disturbing contemplative exercise about the new world chaos, the empire of technological terror, the modern decadence made of self-destruction and oppressive fear. The music is resolutely brutal, raw and merciless but also reflective and emotionally intoxicating. Micro-sonic percolations meet blasphemous corrosive noises, treated samples and lysergic dronescapes to embellish a demonic cathedral of sounds. The whole thing is deeply sonorous and terrifying cinematic and furiously efficient. Plaintive and violently skeptical power electronic hymns upon a slowly dying humanity. Perfectly appropriate as a hallucinogenic soundtrack while reading the ferocious and lugubrious expressionist poetry of doctor Gottfried Benn.
Earth Burial is available on Exabyss.
