This is the 2nd album from an up and coming Icelandic experimental electronica artist Astvaldur (aka Ástvaldur Axel Þórisson).
His work is billed as a composite of sound design, complex patterns and club-influenced beats.
For this album, he resolved to be open to the possibilities of a less controlled, more chaotic approach, moving away from the carefully textured electro-acoustic sounds of his debut, At Least, which was released in February 2017 on Berlin’s Oqko label.
Among the oblique strategies he deployed for Correlation Attempts are
• "Mis/interpretations give space for re-evaluations"
• "Lack of control gives space for uncertainty which can be embraced, or controlled".
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In the purple prose of his press release, the seven tracks are described as "monadic electronic structures constantly shifting and warping in a state of perpetual flux".
The bold, abrasive methodology is encapsulated in the menacing bass lines of Alcohol Abuse and Suicide Attempts and the shape-shifting opening track Abundance.
Its not all brain-poundingly extreme but his digitized constructs are specifically designed to invade the senses to create an uneasy listening experience.
Astvaldur at Bandcamp
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