CROP CIRCLES

— First review of this album —

Crop Circles is a super side project and transcendantal noise ambient duet founded by the two sound designers Shoï Extrasystole and Nicolas Dick. The two musical personalities are known by the electronic independent scene adepts thanks to successive collaboratives, representative live events, multi-media exhibitions and artistic collectives. This self-titled album published in 2013 was welcomed by the recommended OPN records (whose musical production is devoted to contemporary names in neo-space ambient styles, noise industrialism and organised electronic bruitist acts). The two tracks offered in this self titled album explore the most obscure facet of free form noisy dronescaping sound tapestry. Totally iconoclast, entrancing, mercyless and neurotically assaultive, the soundscapes are made of abrasive guitar treatments, micro sounds. The whole thing is deeply sonorous, dense and subversive with sligth presence of emotional lines behind the monolithic isolationist, white-noisy-distorted sound structure. Some cinematic, psycho-active field recordings beautifully punctuates the sinuous drone in-flux, plaintive guitar tones and usual bleak electronic mayhem. Reclusion Chronicles offers a vast and impressive array of collage motifs, psych-acoustic vibes are guaranteed. A challenging and uncompromised release which offers to the listenr a tormented, testing, consuming and reflective dialogue with their own psyche. Not for all ears but definitely a must have for fans of Maurizio Bianchi or Aube (for the blast of power electronics) and Aidan Baker for the more noisy-guitar drone tendency.