Root Themselves In The Power Of Place features two examples of textural layered/at-points busy/ detailed walled noise from this Cincinnati, Ohio-based project. Both tracks slide in at around the half-an-hour mark, and both are rather distinctive/ creative in their make-up.

This is a digital-only release on Portland, Oregon’s Basement Corner Emissions. The cover artwork takes in a hazed/ blurred grey, black, and white pattern/ shape which is difficult to define. The album can played/ downloaded  here 

Both tracks here come in at around the thirty-minute mark, and both are untitled. The first track is the busiest/most detailed of the two featured- and really is a pure joy to listening to. Its dense matt of sound brings together several layers of pipe-like scrape/ rubs, a bubbling bottle-like tone, and these almost rhythmic percussive elements that hint at African music origins. The track creates a vivid & detailed soundscape around you- bringing to my mind a walk through some strange industrial machine come semi-organic factory- which shifts, drips, and slowly morphs around you.

The second track focuses on a more simplistic, yet no less engaging blend of a few textures. It’s a decidedly tensioned affair- bringing together tight buffings, condensed pelts, and taut sheet-like rattlings. Imagery-wise I’m seeing several figures trying to make their way along the wind-battered ledge of a cold rain-pelted building, and by the end of it, one almost feels like you've really been out in a storm on the edge of a building. Over time the whole thing takes on an almost rhythmic feel- but this time it’s more wavering/ slurred with a more defined industrial feel to proceedings

Root Themselves In The Power Of Place most certainly severs up two very different & original examples of the wall form. All making this release a recent stand out in the scenes output.