First up we have “A Thing That Is Nothing”, and this comes in just under the five minute mark. The track’s built around an active mass of rumbling, rubbing & tumbling textured noise which Matzus bounds into a close sounding & eerier wall of sound. Weaved in & out of these dense, grey & often menacing tones is this buried creepy texture which shifts from been strange scraping like, to sinister wind billowing like, onto almost muffled whishing like in it’s feel- this 2nd element really adds a stark & damn creepy edge to the track. All told this is a very effective bit of ‘wall-making, and it seems to summon up in my mind images of being stuck inside a dank, dusty & dread filled wooden cabin out in the  middle of the countryside in early winter.

Secondly we have “A Thing That Is No-thing”, and this comes in at just shy of the five & a quarter minute mark. Once again the tracks built around close sounding textures, and this time it’s a slightly more active & rapid mixture juddering ‘n’ rubbing tones. Underneath these main, & at times quite manic, tones are these distant sort of metal support snapping ‘n’ buffeting in the wind textures.  For some reason this track feels a bit more nightmarish & surreal to me, and it conjures up fearful dreamscapes that chart either walking over a slowly snapping suspension bridge that hangs over pure churning darkness, or been chased by something shapeless & snapping down an endless corridor.

Both track here are effectively atmospheric, textural rewarding & creepily executed- so a great release. This first release from the project is available for free from Mr Matzus bandcamp page here.  I very much look forward to hearing future releases from this project.