January and February are rather odd months in terms of music reviewing. It’s a quiet spell for gigs – the weather’s usually poor and everyone’s boracic in the wake of the festive season, often too busy blowing the remains of their overdraft on gym membership while vowing never to drink again. And so, confined indoors, I find myself sifting through the remnants of the previous year’s release (and those remnants require a moratorium, o I’d still be sifting through them the following August) and slowly sinking under the early deluge of new releases. And of course, come spring, all of these bands will be touring, whole the bands looking to the festival season for their live action will be unveiling their albums around the same time, say April or May.
Still, the long dark nights indoors afford the opportunity to listen to seasonally appropriate albums like these – I’m talking about chilling electro/industrial works, rather than songs about snowflakes and crisp winter pleasantries.
The album promises ‘psychogeographic maladies and invocations to warm the heart of the discerning and intrepid psychonaut’, with ‘phonic seeds planted in Blackened soil fertilised by visceral imagination…. A fugitive ambience for those seeking solace in the unexpected’.
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As you may expect from an act who’ve supported artists like Tim Hecker and Wrangler, there are many layers and moods to be discovered within the broad sonic church of Colossloth’s sound.
As dark, sonorous and expansive drone goes, ‘Outstretch Your Hand For The Impress Of Truth’ is pretty special. Drawing on both the more delicate aspects of Prurient in the weaving of delicate sonic lattices, and industrial noise, it’s an album that leads the listener inside themselves, while simultaneously enveloping them in expansive, ever-shifting sonic helixes. The effect is cumulative and mesmerising, resonating primarily on a subconscious level.
Colossloth - Outstretch Your Hand For The Impress Of Truth
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