Room Of Wires delivers an all-encompassing collection of rugged drums and moving electronic pieces that are balanced with cascading soundscapes. The push-pull effect of industrial landscapes complimented by undulating ambient fissures makes for a momentous 2018 album that takes flight on its own.
We finally get entangled in a room of wires with White Transit being the duo’s debut full length album. As their Soundcloud page denotes: “Room of Wires have never met, a love of uneasy music is all that binds them together. Working in total isolation they create dark electronica fused with sub-atomic beats.” We couldn’t agree more! The result is an amalgamation of what we’ve come to gravitate towards on previous EP’s. There’s a mixture of gritty electronic clanging to softer emotive tones drifting in the margins (ie. “Apocalypse Beach”).
What these two do so well is their affinity for dark, corrosive, and clanging beats that wouldn’t be surprising to hear on labels like Skam, M-Tronic, and Hymen. Not quite industrial, but veering into the shadows—as noted on”Abyss” and “Lane Pusher”—there are moments of confusion and otherworldly rhythms enacted on White Transit like microbes left to inhabit a new planet. The title track maneuvers through glitch echoes and organized mayhem, its downtempo pulse segues through fading voices in the distance. “Dried Eyes” creates a similar mood with chugging DSP and distilled vocal strands as a lifting point.
Managing to unleash a beast of an album within ten tracks set for our Top Releases of 2018, tracks like “Reflex Yarn” pull at the heartstrings with post-industrial vigor—its delicate background melody is offset by sharp percussive jolts that gradually dissipate. “Rhombus4” lifts off as if Gescom were behind the knobs—its broken clip-hop beats and randomized noises are finely chopped down.
As a result, Room Of Wires delivers an all-encompassing collection of rugged drums and moving electronic pieces that are balanced with cascading soundscapes. The push-pull effect of industrial landscapes complimented by undulating ambient fissures makes for a momentous 2018 album that takes flight on its own.
White Transit is available on Bandcamp.
