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LUASA RAELON - Consumed within the years of lead

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: PACrec 104 Release Year: 2004 Note: Atmosphärischer Post-Industrial aus der wachsenden US-Industrial / Dark Ambient-Szene, fünf abwechslungsreiche, dunkel-noisige Stücke, to discover! [Drone Rec. 2005] - "brooding, dark industrial material with insane structure and sense of space. inspires a sense of unease and dread, total midnight music." [label info] LAST COPY Price (incl. 19% VAT): €8.00 More Info Atmosphärischer Post-Industrial aus der wachsenden US-Industrial / Dark Ambient-Szene, fünf abwechslungsreiche, dunkel-noisige Stücke, to discover! "brooding, dark industrial material with insane structure and sense of space. inspires a sense of unease and dread, total midnight music." [label info] "Consumed Within The Years Of Lead" marks the first widely available proper CD from this active and always improving project. If you haven't checked them out yet you can't blame it on hard to find releases anymore. "Years of Lead" a nearly eleven minute epic opens the disc, combining low drone melody, with looping hi tones and stutters and then tying them all together through the use subtle drifts and restrained distortion swells. It's an ambient piece that at the same time swipes at you with the sharp hi end. The piece ends on a more percussive rhythmic note as it fades away. "Forging New Alloys" uses a similar tool kit, low drones, rhythmic loops, some sharp high end, but it is a more active and alive kind of track. The movement is faster and the sounds denser while still being rooted on the ambient foundation. "The Eye Of Silence" is another lengthy piece using a foundation of distortion that almost splashes like waves at the shore in the opening moments and then returns somewhat toward the end. This gives way to electronic pulses, deep tonal swells and reverberating metallic clashes. The piece maintains a lot of negative space and uses the silences and air well. "Harvest Time" has a slow throb to it in the opening that fades away to a delicate melody and scraping metallic sounds with an genuinely unsettling presence. When this ceases, we again have multiple swells of differing texture and a nice use of silence and space, before the sound of slithering knives briefly returns. It gives everything a nice distinction. The disc closes with the track "Binary Solutions". Drawn out melody, and some really unique textures I'm not sure I can even qualify, open the track. A strange squirming, peeling quality that takes on rhythmic characteristics at times. There is an odd tension to the track, almost a paranoid quality really. "Consumed Within The Years of Lead" is an impressive release, with a unique quality to it that you don't often here in Dark Ambient type releases. In fact it's difficult to classify it so simply because of the variety of textures used but the overall feel is largely ambient and the tone becomes increasingly unnerving as the record plays out. Excellent.“ [Worm Gear]