Owners Of Knowledge — Lost Conversions

Lost Conversions is a recent two-track release from this Mtskheta, Georgia wall noise project. Each track runs at dead on twenty-five minutes. The first is thick and densely sludgy, while the second is a more eerily droned-out affair.

This is a self-released digital affair. For the cover artwork, we have a black and white, contrast-heavy affair that brings together a bleakly abstract selection of shapes. The album can be found here

The first track is entitled “For The Prize”.  This is a suffocatingly dense ‘wall’,  which is built around a blend of sludgy and slow stirring bass tones, blunt jittering drone, and grainy sliding static grit. It feels akin to be stuck in a half-lit water tunnel- the cold, dark water presses around your neck, as the ceiling seems to get closer and closer the further you go in. It’s an effective scuzzy 'wall', which pulls you deeper and deeper into its dark suffocating mass.

The other track is “Fragment”. Here, we find a murky collusion between a blunt/ constantly running mechanical drone and a selection of steady knocking  & bobbling tones. If the first track felt like you were stuck in a filling tunnel, this feels like you're speeding through a larger, taller subterranean tunnel on a speed boat- but as you sped by, you get brief looks at eerily darting shapes in the water- and you're not exactly sure what they are.

Lost Conversions effectively shifts from suffocating sludge. Onto eerily bobbing drone with a low-key unease/ subtle industrial undercurrents.