Augmented Atrocity — In Search Of Something That Doesn't Exist

 In Search Of Something That Doesn't Exist brings together elements of Power Electronics and slightly surreal post-industrial/ noisemaking. It’s the second full-length release from this Helsinki project, and appears in the form of a CD on Germans  Aussaat.

The CD comes presented in a six-panel monochrome digipak- this takes in illustrations/ drawings of morphed/growing out of flesh wall humanoid-like figures. With minimal white text set against a grey background- fine enough but of packaging, though sadly no inlay booklet- as with PE it’s always nice to read song lyrics.

The nine-track album opens with “Scratching Through Skin( Removing Things Within” which pares a greyly sludgy purr ‘n’ churn, steady pitch climb, sinister through muffled radio/ watery distorted male vocals. Moving on we have the track “Pile Of Decay” which opens up with a glitchy/ choppy fly buzz element- this is soon added to by a punishingly tolling crude and grey industrial tone, and baying/ swirling vocal rant with low-key noise grain churn- with it dropping back to buzzing fly loop before finishing.

In the second half of the album, we move from the dense humming feedback, taut grain skitter, and muffled grey mumblings of “Call Of The Void”. Onto  taut ambient hover,  distant footsteps, and shadowy  voice trails of “Back To Where It Started” 

I’d say if you enjoy the more greyly sicken-to-subtle surreal side of the PE genre- certainly give, In Search Of Something That Doesn't Exist, a go. Though there is nothing you won’t have heard before. I wanted to give this two and a half mark, but as we only do full marks I've gone for two