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kevin drumm - Imperial Horizon
*Long-awaited follow-up to 'Imperial Distortion', one of our albums of last year and an incredible exercise in layered ambience that will blow your mind if you have grown up in awe of Aphex Twin's 'Selected Ambient Works Volume II'* 'Imperial Horizon' is Kevin Drumm's addendum to last years overwhelming epic 'Imperial Distortion'. That album is simultaneously one of the bleakest yet most life-affirming releases of the last few years, enveloping the listener in a saturated miasmah of unearthly drone textures to create the mood of utterly sublime darkness that has left us enraptured since we first heard it. The format of that album was given to lengthy track times where the only source of disappointment was when they didn't continue infinitely. Drumm has partly corrected that problem with 'Imperial Horizon', erecting a single standalone obelisk sixty four minutes in length and requiring your undivided attention for the duration, carrying the (most dedicated) listener to an out-of-focus and indistinct perimeter on glacially moving tonal oscillations. Drumm's approach to arrangement is crucially devoid of any overblown dynamics or statements, and instead developed with a knowingly stoic gaze and refined subtlety so far removed from the Black Metal that he loves, but at once the same in its stringently focussed tenacity. Throughout the duration minor changes occur with an organic and barely heard quality, as if one is listening to the exact same sound, but perceived from different angles as they're revealed to the ear by Drumm's mystifying processes. The more caustic first half is ripe with the Ballardian imagery of municipal noise pollution symphonies coalesced into grandly muted articulations, before the overloaded tones gradually peel and dissipate into glassy harmonics, piercing the atmosphere with the ethereal quality of a theremin and most reminding us of the standout moments on Aphex Twins SAW volume 2. A suspended bass tone is introduced in the final section, leavening the balance with a gravity that draws the piece away from the heavenly registers to something altogether more earthbound, but still leaving the listener plenty of room for interpretation. Imperial Horizon' is a work of majestic minimalist control and discipline that comes very highly recommended to anyone who fancies losing themselves further than the last time. Essential Purchase.











































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