The English darkwave quartet Stupid Cosmonaut released the LP Digitalis on the 5th.
Stupid Cosmonaut – Photo by Paul Mallinson
The six track, roughly thirty eight minutes, album (available on bandcamp) has a dystopian oppressiveness that fills the room in shadows of synthesised guitars, distant, yet unrelenting, percussion and immersive electronica.
Though dark in presence, Digitalis, is nonetheless an entrancing LP of ambient soundscape in which the listener feels their body and mind becoming as one with the music and far from feeling threatened by the hidden menace finds themselves hypnotically attracted and desirous of exploring the many layers of the compositions.
My pick of the release being the longest track, running at thirteen minutes, the second on the album – Rephlex.
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