Ataraxy — Barriers
The five untitled tracks here fall between the five minute mark up to the twenty five minute mark a piece. I guess you could define Ataraxy’s take on the genre as been quite cold, precise and firm in it’s feel. With each track been built around two or three clearly defined tones that run along side each other in a very controlled and upright manner. The tracks tones are manly a mixture of: pressing drill drones, jittering or juddering static and the odd foray into stuck ‘n ‘ loop furnace noise roar.
Each track is rewarding enough and as a whole the album has a certain stern charm about it, though I can’t really say any of the track particular stand-out or vary much; you see Ataraxy knows how he likes to make noise, and he pretty much keeps to that template through-out all of the albums tracks.
“Barriers” is a cold, calculated and working-man like collection of HNW making; so don’t expect much surprise or textural variation here, but if your after cold, unforgiving and uncomplicated wall making this could well be for you!.