Rat Patrol is a just over half-hour example of walled noise, with a rather nice/ effective undercarriage of hauntingly warbling ‘n’ drifting ambience. Burial Garden is a relatively new Serbian project- going by their band’s Bandcamp page this is just their third release, as it started in June of this year.

This is a digital release appearing on  Portland Oregon’s Basement Corner Emissions. For the cover work, we have a picture of a rather plump cat sitting in its bed. The album can be downloaded here 

The single track here comes in at the thirty-six minutes & twenty-four-minute mark. It’s constructed around a blend of faint bass rattle,  galloping to gentle buffeting mids, and lighting baying/ thin crispness. The ‘wall’ elements have a rather roughshod, at points breaking quality about them.

Running under the ‘wall’ we have this sort of warbling ‘n’ whistling ambience- which at points forms into a hauntingly harmonic string, at others rather eerier drifts and ebbs. The two elements are placed/ mixed together well- with the whole thing having a rather glum, yet mysterious drift & swirl about it- with each new play I’m managing to pick out other elements.

I must say for an early release from a wall maker Rat Patrol is rather impressive with the fairly distinctive ebbing noise elements blended with the haunting ambience- so I’ll most certainly be checking out this project's other three releases, and looking out for new work from them too