Drone/noise that had great potential - the high points are amazing, albeit scarce - but that failed at execution. The records feel erratic, hesitating constantly between ambient, lush synth stuff, bleeps and bloops, and straight up noise, the whole of it feeling mostly boring. 1-2 got me hyped up as very noisy tracks that I found to be jams - thought this would be like Controlled Bleeding again. At the end of 2, the energy falls down to somewhat boring ambient, and the record never manages to reach that intensity again after that point. 5 would be cool as some kind of metal interlude with its nice wind instrument, but on a low energy album such as this one it felt too soft. It does grow well as a track though. 7 brings back the noisiness, and is a sublime jam as string come atop the noise mid-track. Apart from that, nothing noteworthy. I'm excited for his discog because he's capable of beautiful things, but this can't be more than a 3.1
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