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LOCRIAN - Greyfield Shrines

Format: LP
Label & Cat.Number: Diophantine Discs n=13
Release Year: 2008
Note: first album for experimental act from Chicago / grey marbled vinyl, lim. 300
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"Chicago's Locrian have, for the past four years, been recording their unique and haunting brand of experimental music. "Greyfield Shrines", their first LP, was recorded live on WHPK in late 2007. The music is dense and enveloping, with mysterious drones and arcane melodies flowing throughout the ominous work. The piece climaxes on the B side as the modulated feedback surges. This release will surely appeal to a wide range of listeners, from industrial, drone, and experimental, to adventurous fans of drone & doom metal.
Locrian's past output includes a number of limited cassette and cdr releases, plus a 7". In addition to frequent live shows, their two members also record solo, and perform in the experimental folk project Unlucky Atlas.
Pressed on grey marbled vinyl with silver & black letterpressed covers. Limited to 300 copies." [label info]

"Locrian is a interesting project that uses a mixture of dark electronically infused sounds combined with dark atmospheric guitars to craft a heavy dim vista of volatile sounds and harsh environments. Greyfield shrines are a two sided LP with two untitled tracks that have a nice and minimal feeling to it. The artwork on the LP is excellent in its simple yet haunting atmosphere of black and grey outlining and texts, a chilling yet magnificent display of how to make a good-looking yet humble cover. The first song starts out with a powerful yet subtle build of electronically minimal drones and sounds, after a while a distorted yet haunting guitar enters the scene and lumbers on into a cacophony of silent madness. The building of the atmosphere is constant yet still creeping as if it where a hunter preying on its victim, a feeling of bleak desolation turns the sound in a new direction only to lurk back into its defences.
The other side and also the other track takes on where the first ended with murmuring guitars and a wall of silent static noise that combines to make a weird yet hauntingly absorbing soundscape. The music turns more turbulent on this side with a chaotically infused hymn to it that seams to be lingering about over the shrieking guitars and the ambient structures. Sounds and feelings merge and manifests in the bubbling muck of the noises and one can almost feel lost in the magnitude of sounds that emerge from the deep. The song peaks after a while and starts to decent down into nothingness and the album ends in a slow lumbering sleep. Greyfield Shrines sounds exactly what you could suspect from the look and the feel of the album in itself. The name of the album is a good definition of what its content holds in place for you, a bleak yet hauntingly supernatural tone of the otherworlds. I really like the feeling that this album manifests in its own, it is like a mutated descendant of one of Henrik Nordvargrs projects gone insane. Locrian really have a good thing going here with a style that reeks of ingenious and I really like the prosperity of this album. It’s a great example of how to mix various influences and make something great out of it. I warmly recommend Greyfield Shrines to anyone into bleak ambient structures with an experimental hint to it. It might take some listens to get into it but once you do there is no turning back." [Skarsnik, Heathen Harvest]

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