FON11 - Vessels
by Freeze Etch
format: CD - date: Feb 1st 2008
Over four years in the making and clocking in at just over an hour -- Vessels, the first proper full-length Freeze Etch album, is a dynamic excursion into a world of thick organic rhythms, striking melodic textures, and surging ambient momentum. By turns sparkling and pristine and by others ugly and smoldering, Vessels explores the brooding tensions between dynamically opposed auras, employing textures which are at once terrestrial and alien, as well as melodic structures which merge skilled composition with the ambiguous flood of drone.
Tracklisting
Another Moving Vessel | (06:05)- Deadly | (05:56)
- Aneurysms | (04:44)
- Soarover | (05:28)
- Extraneous | (02:12)
- Boundward | (07:39)
- Vehicularism | (06:03)
- The Standstill | (04:44)
- Freight Memory | (05:35)
- Slight Rite | (11:22)
- Asunder | (06:09)
Reviews
This album combines many elements to present what we.re listening to. Complicated industrial rhythm textures, which include both complex broken beats together with smooth and plain ones, ambience on the background (and sometimes being the biggest and the most important part of the track), a certain amount of noise, that becomes apparent and numerous scratches and glitches, all together supplemented with a huge amount of rich melodism, including such instruments as piano (as it may seem). The sound changes from light, transparent, aerial to darker one, rather viscous and heavy... (read more on Heathen Harvest)