Artist Destructo Swarmbots
Album Clear Light
Label Public Guilt Records
Year 2007
Style Ambient
Quality Lame/VBR/44.1kHz/J.Stereo
Source CDDA
Type Album
Date 06-28-2007
DESTRUCTO SWARMBOTS (US). Destructo Swarmbots has carved a unique niche
for themselves over the past 4 years. Their live shows consist of chaotic
walls of white noise, improvised textures and battered instruments. Their
recordings are delicate, at times meditative, washes of ambience
constructed from countless piles of tortured sounds. Influenced heavily
by 200+ needle-dropped, out of print psyche records, "Clear Light" is
their strongest effort yet and the next step on their journey to artistic
isolation. THe main man himself calls it a rock band.
"Spaced-out psychedelic ambient noise, a droning, drifting soundscape
for journeys through the far, frozen reaches of outer space, or perhaps a
journey to the center of your mind; either way, this is truly excellent
music for zoning out. The man's droning psych pimp hand is strong...!"
-Dead Angel
"Noise comes in all textures and tones, but there's something truly
unique about Destructo Swarmbots' experimentation. Somewhere between the
creaking ambiance of Larsen and the incessantly clipping Xela, Destructo
Swarmbots will ruin your life." -XLR8R
"A hermetic closed field of sound, that is indeed evocative and nice,
but also quite dark. Post rock going underground. Very nice." -Vital
Weekly
"...a dark field of screaming acid-guitar leads peeled off over an
oozing drone pulse and sheets of shimmering starlit keyboard... a
monstrous gleaming driftscape of slowly blossoming washes of heavy
distorted feedback and fuzzy amplifier buzz coursing out across the
heavens while mournful minor key synths and strains of wah-pedal whoosh
streak through the layers of buzz and drone, ending in a flurry of melted
melodies... some of his most isolationist droneworks yet."
-Crucialblast.net
"Lone gunman Mike Mare adopts a wide-angle lens on the record's
40-minute opener Banta but zooms in and out of focus in a fraction of
the time on the three minor variations that cap it. Of course, it's a
convenient metaphor for Mare's style of structured guitar improvisation:
Clear Light exerts a gravitational pull like a giant black hole
collapsing in on itself." -Decibel
http://www.destructoswarmbots.com/
01. Banta 39:21
02. Phases 04:36
03. Fireberry 05:21
04. Sipping On The Fog 05:29
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