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SYNTA[XE]RROR: element [OFF] crime

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Artist: SYNTA[XE]RROR (@)
Title: element [OFF] crime
Format: CD + Download
Label: Zoharum (http://zoharum.com/) (@)
Rated: * * * * *
I was quite surprised when I found out this almost unknown, but pretty interesting, project (that I heard for the first time on a release imprinted by Italian label Ars Benevola Mater some years ago), by the Wroclaw-based Polish duo by Bartosz Jakubicki aka Kostia and Artur Blaszczyk aka Blacka on Zoharum, and I honestly missed their first one, but this output (dated back 2022... one of those records buried by a pile of other releases I constantly receive from everywhere on this planet - and maybe from other ones, considering the huge quantity of material we receive can rise doubts on environmental sustainability of music market! ) meet some expectations I could have after refreshing those musical memories. Maybe the main difference, compared against what I heard, is the more robotic stepping of their artifacts (four movements piled together in one 41 minutes lasting solo track), but, as it can happen while listening their previous sonic freaks, listener's mind often gets hijacked towards dystopian more or less concrete visions by heavily corrosive 'synth-phonies' and dehumanized processions (that are often deranged by tricky hooks, like on the kind of chiming carillon sound introducing the fourth movement - definitely my favorite one -). Resounding more concrete in times when a supposed head of a huge sectarian and particularly successful movement (well you can guess whom I'm talking about) gets publicly consulted and refunded by a massive marketing campaign on AI… in spite of the mentioned environmental concerns, the CD version of this release (just 300 copies) were folded in ekopack!

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