For a lone man armed with nothing to face down that juggernaut but a keyboard and a drum machine, he successfully conjures a dark but optimistic world, pinpricked with points of light.
The grandiose sweep of “Come With Me If You Want to Live” with which Street Thunder opens Hunter-Killer 2029 suggests the awakening of a celluloid giant, further borne out by titles referencing the Terminator movie franchise. For a lone man armed with nothing to face down that juggernaut but a keyboard and a drum machine, he successfully conjures a dark but optimistic world, pinpricked with points of light. Finding complexity in simplicity, a carousel dreaminess carries the skygazing of “Dawn @ Mt. Sarah Connor” over to the briefer, headier stargazing of “Night @ Mt. Sarah Connor.” The twelve-minute long “Motorbikes At Midnight/To Be Continued…?” closes the circle with reprised majestic sweep but with coarser bristles, wailing and swelling to Brobdingnagian proportions but as fully melodic as the rest. An unexpectedly amiable suite.
Hunter-Killer 2029 is available on Wggfdtb. [Release page]
