53+ minutes of raw experimental noise in the death industrial vein. The heavily treated and reverberated vocal presence is definitely in line with a lot of the UK power electronics acts, and at times the actual textures are a bit less atmospheric and deal more with harsh noise, but pound for pound there's a good undercurrent of ambient tones and a certain mood that keeps things interesting. Especially nice are the eerie rattling sounds within "Traffic" and the dark undertones and twisted indecipherable samples of the mysterious "Paranoid Terror Reactor (Do Not Accept)". At the end of the disc after around 30 seconds or so of silence, there's an unlisted track that clocks in at around eight minutes. It's far more ambient than the other tracks, and a bit more hypnotic in its use of throbbing repetition. In my opinion it's far superior to the bulk of the disc, and I'd love to hear a direction more along such lines incorporated into some of the material. In my opinion the recording could use a little bit more detail, but it's not bad. I like the rugged density of the work, but it can be too muddy, and I feel like some of the more subtle elements might be getting lost or losing some bite in the shuffle. The jet black CD-R comes in a DVD case with simple artwork and minimal text, but it looks very nice. I really love the starkness of the image on the front cover, and it's heavily saturated use of colors. I'd like to hear more from this project down the line. A handful of these tracks are exceptional, and I think a few others might hold more weight with a more rounded out recording. Three to five of these compositions would have made a wonderful EP, but at more than 53 minutes I do lose interest from time to time...
[Misanthrope]
Running time - 53:42, Tracks: 15
[Notable tracks: Traffic, Paranoid Terror Reactor (Do Not Accept), and the unlisted track]
Misanthrope Studio - http://www.crionicmind.org/misanthrope/
