- Kosmische Musik
- Plunderphonics
- Sampledelic
- Electronic music
- Avant-rock
- Krautrock
- Sound collage
- Noise rock
- Experimental rock
- Spoken word
Comment: it is
another heavily synthesiser and an old Akai-driven transgressive
album to get commented over there today yet it does have a little to
do with the genre called synth-pop. Similarly to The Flaming Lips who
used lots of uncanny electronic applications and synthesised stuff to
create marvellous
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002), or
Primal Scream's outstanding ones
Vanishing Point (1997), and
Evil Heat (2002). Two previous releases by Scouts of
Uzbekistan (Mark Carolan, Johnny Zchivago) being represented earlier
at RMH, the self-titled outing (2011), and
Hate Is Our Religion
(2016) were stylistically from a different section, however, with
regard to their cutting-edge method and intention of course I don't
dare to bet though. At times it chimes like an obscure example from
the downright tape underground of the 80s, for instance, regarding
such a combo as Big City Orchestra by turning the initial meaning of
spoken word samples upside down by giving them an ambivalent meaning
or emitting a disorienting madness. At times it rings like a
Kosmische Musik tinged shuttle ready to start into a heavily iterative
and blissful chaos of squeaky sounds and undulating space. Behind the
chaos fractals start to appear as soon as one can digest this whole
of 10 compositions (it does mean a listener must do at least a couple
of revs across the enchanting orbit).The title track is about Lord,
about its characteristics in human terms and then stepwise
progressing into a creepy guitar-induced noise symphony. The
mind-provoking release is a notch of the discography of Year Zero. A
best one of 2018.
