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Slow Listener, "Bruise Journal"

You don't get many more image heavy titles than "Bruise Journal" and Slow Listener has created a unhurried burner of a track here. This drone warped piece creeps out the speaker like a living breathing thing, though not for long by the sounds of it.

 

First Person

The creak of organ has an organic rot to it, the switches in frequency sometime a little heavy/clunky. There are swirls like falling ash, the dry croak of a flickering flame in the wind sending mini-drones through passages of closedown. There could not be any better compliment than to say this could have easily been an American tapes style release, a cleaner take on John Olson's Full Scales project. If it is possible to get a ghost in the machine, then this is the sound of the body’s internal organs closing down before the ghost is born.