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| 3.0 good | TheManMachine | September 4th 15 |
The obscure-color-coded track titles may serve to reinforce the enigma but the forthright album title bears mental reassurance -- something that is much needed here. Other than the out of place industranoise that serve as bookends, this coughs out rough and/or stripped bare sketches of formable techno out of slothful extremist minimalism. Sit-still one-note drone-tone-rows drill themselves so deep that they start to sound like voices; shadowy patterns emerge and take shape so slyly, with shifts so gradual+slight, it comes off as aural illusion, as well as tricky coercion into observing+analyzing all the little things. Whether it's softly unfolding, menacingly grinding away, or employing the woozy swiftness and click-clacks of helicopter blade chops and textile mill machinery, these methods of unrelentingly dominating headspace can be exasperating, enlightening, numbing, maddening, world-encompassing. But an hour-plus of it mostly just solicits a desensitized shrug.
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| 2.5 average | Wolfe | October 22nd 19 |
| 2.0 poor | Jots EMERITUS | May 23rd 15 |
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