The ten featured tracks contain such a potent barrage of gritty electrical manifests that it’s hard to focus on any one tune without also associating with its neighboring siblings.
Redefining exploration and rhythm
Sedatic, based in St. Petersburg, pulls out some of the darkest analog electronics we’ve heard in 2024 on his album Rhea, which was released in mid-January on the always trustworthy People Can Listen label. The album submerges post-industrial and glitch components within an atmospheric debris maze, redefining exploration and rhythm. The ten featured tracks contain such a potent barrage of gritty electrical manifests that it’s hard to focus on any one tune without also associating with its neighboring siblings.
Sedatic doesn’t hold back in the opening track, “Goliath,” which is well named, as well as the R2-D2 blips and blackened bleeps of “Bruksizm.” It opens the floodgates for what’s to come, revealing a penchant for ambient shadows, creepy synth strands, and a mechanical core. Keeping the shape shifting noise on “Descriminator” afloat with a hard bass rhythm, even if it sounds more like Autechre territory than anything else, Rhea is a baffling assortment. Taste the sonic clusters on the title track’s glitch-breaks, the Richard Devine-infested tones and textures of “Wolf 1061c,” or the closing cinematic ambient swell of “Relax flower.”
Even though Sedatic’s audio compositions have only really been available to us through PCL, it won’t come as a surprise to find his name associated with other high-end experimental electronic music imprints. Incredibly engaging and intoxicating throughout.
All music written and produced by Sedatic
Mastering by Optionica
Cover art by Marina Alfimova
Rhea is available on People Can Listen. [Bandcamp]
