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This album is a split between Mutations and Serene Ailment.
Mutations’s side starts with the track “False Sense of Security”, which begins with a wall of noise, higher in the mid-frequencies without much low-end. It fades in, and is soo…
Shit Creek & Territorial Gobbing – Bastard Radio
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The first track of Bastard Radio is “Proper Bastards”, which starts with multilayered periodic noise overlayed with what sounds like some kind of sphincter letting out air with a bit of distortion with what sounds like the rattle of tin can…
Tongues of Mount Meru – The Hex of Light
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“Foliage” begins, and a loud, distorted saw-tooth-wave drone plays, and is soon accompanied by a synth pad which ebbs in and out of the sound for a bit, then establishes itself as a secondary drone. It drops out for a second, then comes back…
Prophétie Froide – Prophétie Froide
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Prophétie Froide begins with the track “Saut de mémoire”, which starts with a drone of harsh full-spectrum noise, interrupted a couple times by a split-second of silence, and then machine-like sounds start in the background, soon accompani…
Wonderful Beasts – The Art Of Whisper
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A foghorn-like synth with quite a bit of reverb plays while water-like static fades in, and then over this a brass-like short synth starts playing arpeggios in a chord progression, then stops, and quickly a pad takes over most of the mix. Then,…
Other Matter – MON ROYAUME DE CHAINES – V – DES ENTRAILLES
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“Fable de Force” starts with low noise, what sounds like a ring modulated violin, atonal guitar playing, which is joined by a trumpet which plays over a fomenting cacophony of guitar, non-tonal synthesizer, and noise. An effect-laden guitar …
Enearth – Daze
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Enearth’s Daze begins with “Intro: Time Zero”, which starts with quickly delayed beats which have a secondary delay effect on them for rhythmic effect. Over this, murky synth pads start accompanied by a repeating minor-key synth string an…
Ceylan – Le long murmure des siècles
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The first track of this EP, “L'existence est un songe”, starts out with a noisy drone that has a low-pass filter that progressively opens up more of the sound-spectrum as time goes on.
The next track, “Le jeu des faux-semblant” begin…
Ardor – Wildflower of Nunavut
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Wildflower of Nunavut is a two track EP which starts out with “Saxifragga Oppositifolia I”, which begins with a mid-tempo two note repeating sequence that has a synth pad playing a slow melody under it. Then it is joined by a higher-pitched…
Sosi – Gone But Not Forgotten
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Sosi’s Gone But Not Forgotten begins with the brief track “Anxiety”, where distorted bell-tones play atonal melodies in dissonant harmonies which almost seem to be without time-signature.
The next track, “Soaked in the Tears of Nothi…