Cipher Productions

Unexpected find of the last copies of this title, which I thought was long sold out!

What I got was dark, oppressive, carefully constructed and gushing with depressive agression release. Album is constructed in such way that it seems that stress and agression is constantly growing. At the beginning of the album rich and dark ambient, based on low sounds dominates with motives of death industrial/power electronics covering it while at the end of the album dismal is changed by absolute rage. "Wretch" starts with "The Warm Body Complex". Clear talking voice, slight pulsations of noise appearing and disappearing and uncomfortable ambience. The song grows, but finally you are left to wander in darkness for nobody had shown you the exit. "Until Death" - first bursts of aggression, understanding that not only darkness is around you, but also something threatening. And also this song is very beautiful. Started with static tone of synthesizer and sounds of junk in the background (this aspect, because of it's light touches in this track, makes it so good to me) and The Vomit Arsonits explodes at the end of the track. Slowly placed words with effected voice strengthens the whole impression about the song even more. "A Moment of Clarity" is time for thinking. Dissonance between calm chords of synth and fierce feedbacks plus screaming voice somewhere in distance. Weird weird mood. If you feel yourself deeply in this song, it strikes you with such power that the title of the song sounds like mockery from you for all sounds embodies absolute hopelessness and nothing more. "Time Passing" does not help to climb out of nightmares, formed by last song. Heavy and dirty loop sounds like dragging of your own body on metallic surface. Later strangely light melody appears. At that moment this song seems to me like a prison cell. You drag yourself along in the dark cell around the shining spot of sun on the floor. For a long time already. Is it hope or quite opposite, reminescence of the outside world that exists behind these walls and that you cannot reach? With such thought I bump into a track called "The Light". The longest piece in the album. Light melody of synth, covered with noises, lasting for around half of the song and then vocal of Andy appears. And approximately from this minute, liberation from dark obscurity to agressive madness starts and it lasts almost till the end of the album. "Beating and Twitching" - noisy track. Atmosphere is enriched with metal banging or so in the background. Despite the fact that these are just echoes, but they are responsible for constructing all the space in the album. And the final one in the album - "Power". Since the very first second - massive wall of noise, feedbacks and vocal which appears in this song not so heavily effected, not so slow, but fiercer and more expressive. Again, after half of the track, sound calms. Left are just crackling and unclear reminescences of experiences in the album. I don't know what was the authors' idea, but my main thought about this album is "liberation in madness". Trying to control yourself in unbearable darkness of your mind, unable to find a place to settle down while elucidation comes in the moment of madness. I do really recommend this work. Packed in an envelope with insert.
(Terror).