Labels: The Ajna Offensive
Review by: Alex Deller
Jesus, if the music I’m buying gets any slower then it’ll start going backwards.
This lot play bowel-loosening drone, and by god is it slow. So slow, in fact, that it sounds equally plausible on both 33 and 45 rpms, which is pretty scary when all is said and done, and made for a frustrating first listen with me flicking between the two speeds and scratching my head like a fuckwit. This effort is mainly instrumental, with sporadic vocals that either yelp nonsensically or do an “ummmm, aaaahhhh” drone/chant thing. Then there’s the occasional sound of bits of metal crashing together, and strange effects which sound like stars giving birth.
So what else to say? To be honest I really don’t know – listening to the damn thing has just sapped my will to live: my eyelids feel way too heavy and I just want to be floating in one of those pitch-black tanks with the water at perfect body-temperature, not knowing where the body stops and the water begins.