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In what is yet another staggering LEM release, Circuit Wound’s Jay Howard takes us on a journey through complete and utter agony.
The opening title track begins with a minute and a half of buzzing frequencies before blasting into a wall of noise fit for Japan’s CCCC. Over-modulated static twists and morphs, creating a wave of horrifying squelch intent on crushing everything in its path. The gates of a chaotic hell are opened, demonic horns blaring. Anguish and suffering collide in an earthquake of desperation.
Then things quiet down a bit. “Desperate Acts of Self-Preservation” hums for several minutes, then glides into shimmering tones. The pain has given way to absolute solitude, standing on a sea of glass with nothing to see in any direction. Anxiety is numbed into a bleak gray landscape. Eventually some rhythmic pounding stumbles into the frame, a dying horse catatonically limping to its inevitable demise, initiating the unavoidable death march into nothing.
For now, the journey is over, but it can return at any time, pulling every fiber of being into its black hole of despair. Just be ready.
