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FINAL - Reading all the right Signals wrong

Format: CD
Label & Cat.Number: No Quarter NOQ018-2
Release Year: 2009
Note: CD version feat. four tracks not on the LP version; mini-gatefold sleeve
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Neues Album von JUSTIN BROADRICKS "Ambient Industrial"-Projekt FINAL (welches aber bereits seit 1982 bestehen soll und somit sein ältestes Projekt ist, welches schon viele Verwandlungen durchgemacht hat). Wallende, polyphone Synths und rauschende Gitarren-Flächen und Riffs bilden den Grundstoff für diese sich ganz allmählich erhebenden langen Drone-Mandalas, die sich langsam einschwingen und in den Äther brennen wie Glut... absolut hypnotisch, und neben den eher dunklen Stimmungen gibt es auch einnehmend ätherische Licht-Drones am Ende. Die CD-Version hat vier Bonus-Remixe !

"Justin Broadrick has always made music which could one day serve as a soundtrack to the end of the world, should we ever need one. Whether with Godflesh or Jesu -- themes of urban decay, corporate greed and post-modern malaise often set the bleak tone. Final, his longest running project, is no different. Formed in 1982, it has often run parallel to his more recognizable work and served as an undefinable and more experimental outlet." [label info]
Features four tracks not on the LP version.

"...Four long tracks (not counting the four remixes on the cd), each slow building and slow burning, the first all soft ethereal melodies over a grinding crunching minimal drone, those two elements all tangled up, with the melodies eventually blossoming into epic atonal harmonies, sheets of sound like a symphony of car horns, smoothed into something much more listenable but no less clamorous and chaotic, definitely reminds us of Sunroof! near the end. The second track starts out all SUNN-y, a crumbling distorted downtuned dirge, although within that dirge lurks some surprising melody, and this track too builds to a blissed out high end shimmer, overlapping tones, washes of synthy warmth, bits of buzz and glitch, lovely, but still softly abrasive. The flipside begins with some sort of abstract doom, thick, jagged chords, ringing out, and allowed to nearly fade out completely, before the next one comes crashing down, lots and lots of space, in the background a strangely active swirl of skree, streaks of feedback, hards of feedback, sine waves and upper register whir, roiling and churning beneath the lumbering riffage. And finally, the record finishes off with something altogether different. Something pretty and strummy and yes, shoegaze-y, but weirdly looped and hypnotic sounding, as if they took a chunk from a Jesu track, a pretty undistorted bit, then doused it in effects and set it on repeat, allowing it to slowly shift, but to lock into a mantra like loop, so gorgeous, could have used a whole 'nother side of this stuff for sure." [Aquarius Records review]


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