Who would've guessed? A whopping 49 tracks of glitchy experimental noise in a mere 14 minutes!? Needless to say it's all a blur. One tracks ends, another begins, and who can tell the difference!? From wispy hisses and abrasive noise to blips and whirrs, and beeps, and chaotic scratches... this is all over the place. Most of the material is very minimal and uses little layering, so it's not really over the top in that sense, nor is it excessively loud or abrasive. In all honesty nothing really has time to develop, even looking at the disc as a whole. There are quick spurts that have their moments, but it's just a jumble of simple, and rather random noise. If there's some sort of process at work behind this I'd like to know about it, because as it stands it doesn't seem as though a great deal of thought or effort necessarily went into this. Which would be fine, except for the fact that it's honestly not a particularly enjoyable experience. The CD-R comes in a DVD case, but there's really no need for it, as the packaging is all in black and white (xeroxed) with relatively plain text and minimal abstract imagery. It's not at all visually engaging, and the larger package does nothing but provide a larger booklet and more space that goes generally unused because it's not interesting to look at. I like the crispness of the material, it's nice and detailed, with a lot of bright highs and warm lows, but it's just not something I can really get into listening to. There's no real atmosphere at all, and without knowing whether or not there was some sort of intentional concept going on, I can't place much value or interest in this work.
[self-released]
Running time - 14:33, Tracks: 49
[Notable tracks: Left Over, Handle My Neighbourhood, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Glitch, Photographic Evidence]
Phobetor - http://www.phobetor.cjb.net
