Sound Methaphors 23 – 2
| date: 14/05/2022
The ‘Untitled EP’ from Spiral Tribe’s brothers in arms Unit Moebius is a crushing exercise in distortion and dread. Opener ‘Summertime’ (spoiler, it’s not exactly Hed Kandi territory) manages to both feel enormous and pulverised into submission. As it progresses, everything is pushed near the point of total collapse. A breakdown of sorts, clanging and metallic, emerges briefly before you’re plunged back into an obliterating tunnel, tapering away to a smudgy bass tone. ‘Millenium’ and ‘Imperator’ are more refined, leaning on doomy, atmospheric synths. ‘C.P.U’ is just madness, building to a squall of borderline atonal noise sitting somewhere on the pleasure/pain axis.
from: https://www.testpressing.org/magazine/spiral-tribe-sound-metaphors
A generous collection of tracks, beautifully representative of the Spiral Tribe world. Coming on strong with “Summertime” a brute force exercise in synthesized rhythm, moving on to trippy dubbed out nuances over medieval bass lines – highly suggestive of time travel. On the flip side things get put back in fast gear with heavy 4 on the floor action propelled by dubbed out hi-hat. Ending with “CPU” which almost sounds like an attempt at shrinking the listener down to the size of an electron traveling inside the circuits of their samplers. Pioneering the distorted dutch techno sounds from The Hague.
from: https://www.phonicarecords.com/product/unit-moebius-untitled-ep-pre-order-sound-metaphors-23/180716
