Review: Angellis Taliuu - Passages From A Digital Codex

I find myself locked in a closed lid dumpster. I'm entrenched in a thick, acrid gravy that comes up to just below my knees. The horse flies, with their abounding numbers, have usurped my resolve.  I've lost all hope as I have been in here for a week and the swill in which I am standing is the liquefied remains of my friends and family. 'Passages From A Digital Codex', the latest offering from Australian experimental artist Angellis Taliuu, would be the ideal soundtrack to this Cronenbergian body-horror affair I've found myself in.

This EP length release, with it's synth heavy sonic palette, hearkens back to the soundtrack work of the horror films of yesteryear. Although this release is firmly in the ambient category, each track has its own legs to stand on.  Track 1 is a descent into a whirlwind of resonant synth swells and insect-like chirping that progresses into a fierce punishment of slow, rhythmic white noise. The second entry has all the aesthetics of a weekend in Freddy Krueger's boiler room while the third track is a patiently rolling wave of haunting orchestral strings.

I found myself enjoying this release with the only complaint being that I wished some of the tracks could have been longer.  The tracks move in a manner that would suggest that something is coming, but instead fade out to silence.  That is a minor gripe for an otherwise solid release of ambient work.

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Extinction Is Love

Bare witness to the long reaching, dark hand of the Network of Individualized Sonic Extremism's print media brigade. We don't exactly know what we're doing yet, but we know there's something to be done, so we're going for it.

The primary objective of this blog is to showcase the work of the artists within the N.O.I.S.E. community and offer an additional platform that Alternative Press just doesn't have the page space for. In the near future, I intend to set up a sort of database in which artists can submit releases of theirs that they would want reviewed by their peers.  I'm not positive what the best system would be to work that out as fluidly as possible. For now, you can email your submission for review to extinctionnoise@gmail.com and we'll sort it all out on our end. 

Ultimately, I would like for this blog to have what I would want to read; Interviews with artists we know and work with, articles on the topic of noise, and the occasional late-night existential stream of conciseness terror scrawling. 

For now, we build!  Lay your body on the slab, submit your content and we'll get this beast rolling.

Ed C