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| 3.4 great | Erwann S. EMERITUS | November 14th 22 |
Roly Porter's Third Law is a textures work: dark ambient layers settle the moving atmospherics, while drony industrial shizzle makes abrupt apparitions to break out the lulling ambiance. It mostly works when said drony industrial shizzle creepily impacts the soundscape, less when dark ambient dictates the whole march.
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | January 2nd 20 |
This feels like his best so far, and confirms that I want to follow his future output if any. He has lots of potential, but the album falters again and is still quite weak for most of it. He manages to make drone that is pounding, crazy, and aggressive instead of ambient-ish, which I love and which I hope he does more of, like on 1-2 and the first half of 3. After that, the record becomes quite boring (except the cool end of 4) and usual RP bleep bloop stuff, until the second half fo 7 and the whole of 8 which is a clear jam, both are grand, epic tracks and explore a lot of flavours of drone/synth etc - 7 reminds of a less noisy Prurient. 3.7
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| 3.0 good | TheManMachine | February 20th 16 |
Sumptuous industria-tinged ambience whose free-drifting formidability sprouts from the remote nether-regions of the galaxy and hovers above like a smoldering fireball, eternally portending an imminent space-pocalypse. It regularly broods and occasionally bursts; and though the ominous low-end tremors and aerial glitch-grit are rich+dense+dandy, I do wish it did more of the latter -- like the anguished-wail churn-outs that surface from the furor in opener "4101", or when "Mass" bouncily nails electro-parallels into your skull while the world around you deteriorates. But spiking terrorization with riveting repose does seem to increase the sinisterly aspect: never underestimate the meditative unknown or the blazing unexpected.
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| 3.5 great | Alabaster Jones | January 29th 16 |
In his most recent endeavor into space-themed dark ambient and industrial, Roly Porter puts together a solid album that flows well and has some surprising, explosive, and affecting moments. The best representation of this can be found on "In Flight" during which a loud, cacophonous industrial sound wall becomes a chorus for the song, interwoven between some periods of relative tranquility and relaxation. Some songs on the record gradually build up and crescendo, but tracks like the aforementioned "In Flight" take different routes in the structure and pacing of the songs, offering a nice variety to the album as a result. It's also good in the sense that it can be both engaging music to focus on and a good background album for when focus is needed on other things. In a nutshell, Porter has put out a solid, enjoyable dark ambient record that is just as engaging as it is relaxing.
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| 4.5 superb | Yep321 | March 29th 25 |
| 3.0 good | Krpa | March 25th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | K3nsei69 | September 25th 18 |
| 3.5 great | JS19 | December 8th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Toondude | December 15th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Wolfe | December 14th 16 |
| 3.5 great | TwigTW | November 21st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | jerry7 | October 23rd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | elemunt | September 30th 16 |
| 3.0 good | ziroth | August 9th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | EJinHD | March 20th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | rooby | February 16th 16 |
| 2.5 average | jtswope | January 28th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Jots EMERITUS | January 6th 16 |
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