a r t i s t : Konntinent
t i t l e : Degrees, Integers
d a t e : 2009
l a b e l : Symbolic Interaction (SIC013)
g e n r e : Ambient
r l s. d a t e : Mar/2009
t r a c k s : 10
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 65,5 MB
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All music Antony Harrison except 'it was almost effortless'
(music Antony Harrison. lyrics/vocals Felicia Atkinson)
Cover image by Liam Frankland
www.symbolicinteraction.net/sic013.html
Joint album of the week is one that came up stealthily and
twatted us blindstyle a week or two back while we were
dutifully ploughing our way through stereo fodder. We get an
awful lot of this homely electronic ambient post-rock kind of
thing and for the most part it leaves me bored shitless but
even I joined in the praise for this Konntinent CD on Symbolic
Interaction - along with everyone else in the office. The
quality's pretty obvious from the off, with tracks veering
between drifty melancholy and tense Godspeed atmospherics, but
about halfway through things really start to pick up along
with the introduction of more experimental elements. You get
humming Raster Noton 'basslines' pulsing their way through
tracks, one that evokes the sound of an alien abduction from
start to finish (complete with garbled sounds from your
malfunctioning TV), one that sounds like a minimalist 'Shadow
of a Doubt' by Sonic Youth (complete with breathy female
lyrics) and a lovely finale bathed in the glorious sunshine of
droning Tangerine Dream-style synths. However, the best is
blatantly 'This Searing Heat', a track grounded rhythmically
by a fantastic, repetitious sound that's part Jaws, part
loosened bass string and part ticking clock (a la Global
Communication's '14:31'). An organ type sound underscores the
tension while bursts of interferance and whirlwinds of static
try their best to break through, gradually overpowering the
other elements. It's like I've been pulled into the
Poltergeist TV and now Slow Norris is stalking me. And it's
all happening in reverse. It's an absolute beauty and probably
worth the cheapy cheap price of entry alone, so the fact that
there's plenty more goodness to be had is a bit of a bloody
boon, is it not?
www.normanrecords.com/records/105799
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01-Nassau Tree [06:37]
02-Broken Sleep in an Empty Room [01:51]
03-The Partisan [06:41]
04-my shoulders are as wide as your hope is heavy [04:31]
05-Call Gignas [09:01]
06-Syckl Cell [04:16]
07-Grasp of Math (integers edit) [04:17]
08-This Searing Heat [07:34]
09-It was almost effortless [05:07]
10-Primary Tertiary [05:34]
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55:29 min