New York-based C. Lavender is described as a “sound artist and sound healing practitioner”, and this third full-length album (if you can call 29 minutes ‘full-length’) seems to be a combination of those two disciplines.

A relatively thick-layered collection of drones, abstracted industrial sounds, found sounds and various atmospheric textures, it’s essentially a series of ambient soundscapes that have been given some story and form, without resorting to rhythm or pattern. At times, it also introduces more electronica-minded elements, such as the low melodic bass tone in “Embrace The Call” or the flute-like (and faintly barking mad) wind noises of time-to-wake-up final piece “Expel The Atrophy”- a track that’s the exception to the ‘no pattern’ rule I just mentioned thanks to its gradual build of delayed percussive hits.

Normally in this genre, the scenes are portrayed quite expansively, in long, drawn-out journeying pieces, but here they are kept succinct, with the seven pieces averaging only just over four minutes each. In some cases this is not actually unwelcome. The alarm-like high-pitched alert sound of “External Becomes Internal” is an ear-scrub that’s quite curious to listen to, but I’m grateful it doesn’t hang around too long. At other points though, like the gritty, waspy rumbles of “Dimly Lit Exit”, there’s the feeling that the process could’ve been extrapolated a lot further to see what mesmerising result was obtained.

So it’s a short series of soundscapes that work best in an immersive situation- the usual low lights, headphones scenarios. They don’t hold a great deal of surprises but they’re a healthy dose of your recommended daily allowance of rumble, drone and controlled noise.