Artist..........: Radian
Album...........: Chimeric
Genre...........: Electronic
Label...........: Thrill Jockey Records
Catnr...........: THRILL224
Source..........: CDDA
Rip.Date........: 07-05-2010
Street.Date.....: 07-12-2009
Quality.........: VBR/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url.............: http://www.myspace.com/radianvienna
Size............: 55.75MB
Song.Title :
01. Git Cut Noise 5:50
02. Feedbackmikro / City Lights 10:18
03. Git Cut Derivat 2:45
04. Chimera 8:56
05. Kinetakt 4:58
06. Subcolors 9:14
Runtime: 42:01 min
Release.Info :
Austrian electronic post-rockers Radian havenÆt made a record since 2004Æs John
McEntire-produced Juxtaposition û an obliquely minimalist, dub bass heavy record
which brought a style, substantively minted by the Chicagoan producerÆs own
combo, Tortoise, a decade before, full circle. Five years on, the Vienna-based
trio of bassist John Norman, drummer/vibes player Martin Brandlmayr and
synth/guitarist Stefan NΘmeth have regrouped, now seemingly intent on distilling
post-rock to an esoteric essence.
No avant-rock grandees were involved in the making of Chimeric (other than the
trio themselves). Recorded and mixed not in Chicago but at the Austrian
capitalÆs Hugosound studio, its forbidding overture may make some wish that an
expurgating presence had been on hand, however. Opener Git Cut Noise certainly
takes no prisoners û its inchoate clang and scrape sounds like Scott WalkerÆs
Tilt being mangled by Autechre and makes perfect onomatopoeic sense of its
title. It proves to be a deceptive hors dÆoeuvre, however, as this is about as
dissonant as the album gets.
While the subsequent five, lengthy essays embrace passages of discord, they just
as regularly delight in warm, dulcet vibraphone chimes, discreet piano notes,
slivers of yielding guitar and the kind of attenuated meta-funk rhythms that Can
fans, at the very least, could cut a rug to. None of these variations on the
pointillist, mosaic soundscaping model, ever actually ægoesÆ anywhere but
nonetheless, the sculpted lucidity of each sonic component invites headphone
immersion. Once ensnared you canÆt help but delight in the highly processed,
meticulously arranged detail.
Typically, the pretty much self-explanatory Feedbackmikro /City Lights is a
brooding, ten-minute odyssey that oscillates between eerie keyboard throb,
opaque electronic sliver, flecks of percussion, doleful daubs of vibes and
skewed, vertiginous guitar chords. It variously recalls Kieran HebdenÆs Fridge,
Talk Talk in one of their more abstruse moments, Australian post-jazz
improvisers The Necks and the celestial electric guitar symphonies of Glenn
Branca. No mean praise.
This may not be the kind of record to win new converts to the often desiccated
province that is latter-day post-rock, but within its acetic, self-ascribed
parameters, Chimeric is something of a minor triumph.
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