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Artist: A CROWN OF LIGHT
Title: The clearing
Format: CD
Label: Eibon (@)
Rated: *****
As you can see we've some new releases on Eibon and that's probably the one I've enjoyed the most. This duo involving Brandon Elkins and Rober Hunter Osgood can be esily filed under industrial/dark ambient but in its strenght lies in its semplicity. The good production pushes every sound in your face when it has to alas that feeling to be sinking in a dark pool is to be taken for granted. This release begins with meachanical drones but it's not just based on that kind of sound (even if they're dominant in most of the tracks) and A Crown Of Light pierced most of their scary atmosphere with a good amount of "concete" sounds and/or field recordings. Sometimes the samples/field recordings can be barely listenable and fade in and out from a fog made out of reverb, but in many cases those cold concete sounds stand firmly in front of the listenrs reaching patiently the climax. A dark-ambient release like many others? I don't thin so and I think it's too bad thet's the impresion you get from the first half of the recording infact if you'll have the patience to let it play you'll discover that despite it's uniformity this cd is not has a couple o interesting surprises ("The sound of one millions lives ending" for example. Dark, heavy, uncompromissory but just muscolar, probably a bit too long but still intense.


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