There are peaks and valleys on Waiting, Occurrence, Dissolve that reward the listener with left-field sound mangling from the outer edges that continue to unfold with each listen.
A darkly-strewn and fascinating audio assault
Colin Muir takes on The Follower moniker as he breaks down ten tracks into blisteringly crunchy electronic segments. We last covered his work on Interminstrel described as “distressed yet evolving acid notes and relaxed braindance elements.” Opening with the title track and its gauzy, downtempo assemblage of random slow-motion artifacts and clanging noises, there’s a rhythmic and dilapidated rave groove buried just beneath the surface of this darkly-strewn and fascinating audio assault; it’s a subtly different branch from previous works.
Muir takes a dip into murkier waters on “Dark E-Suggestion” where broken beatwork and melodic distortion take over the landscape. Delivering surreal synth-sandblasting echoes and abstract sputtering sounds from another dimension, the stage is set. The whole album subtly shakes and rattles with braindance activity—tracks like the bubblier Aphex Twin-infused “Non-polar Vortex” and shuffling “Black Kite” provide just enough melodic melancholy moments to keep us fidgeting. There are plenty of fizz-fuzz and Skam-infested notes and warped synth-lines as well. “Surprising E-suggestion” leaves a trail of peculiar and scattered electronics for the listener to find.
Closing with flowing, acid-tinged effects on “Thirty Days, Thirty Nights,” there are peaks and valleys on Waiting, Occurrence, Dissolve that reward the listener with left-field sound mangling from the outer edges that continue to unfold with each listen.
Waiting, Occurrence, Dissolve is available on Concrete Collage. [Bandcamp]
