Ennaytch — Music Of The Future

Music Of The Future is a more formal, dense/ not so multi-layered/ less ambient take on the wall noise form from this US project, which normally focuses on the more playful/experimental side of the genre.

This is a release from earlier this year from Portland's Basement Corner Emissions. With cover art taking in an old illustration from the 40’s/ 50’s of a spaceship rocket landing on a planet, with a male and female astronaut looking over from a rock outcrop.

The release takes in just shy of an hour's worth of noise. It’s broken tracks, and really, it remains fairly set/ firm in its sound palette. We open with a short nineteen-second intro/self-titled track, which is basically an old sample of a rather posh-sounding man talking about the sounds of the future.

We then drop into “The Future Belongs To Us All” which slides in just under the half-hour mark. The ‘wall’ is a mixture of chugging/ slightly mechanical droning mid-range, locked/ rapid oscillation static, and maybe some distant, smaller/ gritty subtone detail. This all stays set/ fixed throughout the track runtime.

Finally, we have “Workers Of The Galaxy, Untie!” which again hits at just under the half-hour mark. The ‘wall’ brings together a slightly knocking/ churning mechanical tone, a fixed cluttering descent, and smaller jitter subtone detail. Again, this track seems set in its unfold- though the subtones may be becoming more active.

Music Of The Future shows Ennaytch in much fuller/ formal form- I’m not sure if the futuristic elements of the title/ artwork really fit the walls, though, of course, this may be meant as a send-up/parody of walled noise itself ( maybe I’m overthinking things?). Both of the two proper tracks offer up a decent enough selection of textures, which together make for compelling hour-by-hour ‘walls’. To check it out