Dead Voices On Air - New Worlds Machine (CD)

If anything, it's probably one of the most unique ambient albums ever made. I think it hits you somewhere around the middle of Dreamcatcher, that the sound starts to wrap around you. The noise is barely familiar. Like listening to lost radio transmissions finally arriving, scarred and unrecognizable. Well, you can hear some lucidity... voices struggling to be recognized in the abyss. And it just starts. Soul Catcher sinks even further into the depths. Long stretches of heavily echoed reverbed noise drawn into slow pulses, with ancient melodies and song trapped just below. The next 3 tracks form one twisting, lurching, crunching nightmare. Of the three, "Powerlang" stands out the most. The weird harmonica line that struggles under the static almost gives a hint of a tune being played. Until it's all ruined of course, just destroyed in a gamma ray burst of remote noise. All of this leads to the subterranean blur of Vuls. It starts as just such a simple drone, but the noise and, um, dead voices on air, i guess, start slowly funneling in. This stops being music, and more of a recording of a certain place in time. It all becomes too real. This is the sound of evil lurking in the alleys. This is the sound of the silence of the night.