Six tracks of artists brought together from differing sonic styles might sound like a recipe for disaster, but this collection shows that new ideas can come from different sources.
An air of anxiety and cavernous fear
The idea was simple: “bringing together Errorgrid artists with opposing styles in pairs to create one track each that contains both authentic voices while making room for the procreation of something new, a synthesis of opposing forces.” Six tracks of artists brought together from differing sonic styles might sound like a recipe for disaster, but this collection shows that new ideas can come from different sources.
Malarki / Johno Wells’ “Abyss Confinement” marries deep dark soundscapes with shuddering beats and arpeggiated bass runs. Snakes of Russia / Modekt’s “Catharsis in a Way” opens with an air of anxiety and cavernous fear paired with sparse, juddering beats that induce repeated waves of oily darkness upon the listener. Sleep Clinic / Sombre Lux’s “Iena Dubuk” opens on stuttering, irregular beats which soon drop into lockstep formation amidst fluttering arpeggios and deep thudding bass. TL3SS / Broken Circuits’ “Systematic Failure” brings the sound of an impending storm that swallows whole whatever is in its path; drums unfolding and steamrolling, distorted wailing synths heralding the end before the guitar doof from Fury Road comes rolling in on a jet prepared to play the apocalypse out. TÆT / Exan’s “Eastern Bells” plays like a failed Martian expedition being consumed by dark insects as Blakmoth / NUNDALE’s “Don’t feed what eats you” closes the album out with an absolute dark, dripping cacophony of all the machine corpses on a futuristic battlefield rising as one into an army of doom.
Opposing Forces is available on Errorgrid. [Bandcamp]
