A fascinating avant-garde electronic/ambient album by a group that also features Colin Marston. In case you haven't noticed, I've developed a mild case of "Colin Marston fever" lately. I'm reluctant to use that phrase, since it implies a sort of obsessive and swooning fanship akin to that of a valley girl for a popstar, but lately I've been fascinated by the man's work and have come to admire both his talent and his musical approach. Marston's music conveys a hardline devotion to genres such as extreme metal and electronic, but without the cripplingly derivative and ultra-conservative mentality that seems to pervade the fanbases of both (the former especially). His music is never dumbed down or predictable, and he manages to pay good tribute to his favorite genres while still infecting them with his own incredibly progressive and experimental style, making the music unmistakeably his (which is not to say that all of the albums that he's been involved with are only of his doing). It also helps that whenever I want to get a good fix of a certain style of music -- electronic in this case, or extreme metal -- I can count on Marston to produce something that combines many different aspects of the entire spectrum of that style into a really satisfying whole. Behold the Arctopus and Indricothere, for example, incorporate thrash, death, doom, and drone into their music with a perplexingly unusual and progressive twist. Infidel?/Castro! do similarly, but instead with electronic styles like drum and bass, dark ambient, techno, and noise. Their music is by nature more accessible than Marston's metal projects and is based more in rhythm and melody. Have a taste.
Favorite track: "Somnambulism"
Least favorite track: "Psychogenic"
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