“A mosaic of the human experience,” indeed, Carbon Based Shrine is a somber, illbient-tinged, and introspectively dark soundscape with sporadic bursts of lighter parts piercing through the ashes.
A sonic collage of industrial detritus and experimental sound forms
Carbon Based Shrine‘s liner notes succinctly characterize this nine-track behemoth as “a distortion-soaked fever dream.” Room of Wires (Andrew Andrews) and Station Zero (Mitch Cain) collaborate to create a sonic collage of industrial detritus and experimental sound forms. The majority of the album is filled with heavy-duty noise and intricately layered atmospherics that align with surreal field recordings, possibly taken from a dismal future.
Culled ambient-downtempo projections and disorienting discussions intensify before disintegrating throughout. “A mosaic of the human experience,” indeed, Carbon Based Shrine is a somber, illbient-tinged, and introspectively dark soundscape with sporadic bursts of lighter parts piercing through the ashes. It offers visceral audio experiments that dig down to the bone. “Stem Leach,” “Warm Bloods,” “Ever So Quiet,” “A Temporary Lapse in Violence,” and the emotively captivating “Awaiting Burial,” are among the standouts.
Carbon Based Shrine is available on Ant-Zen. [Bandcamp]
