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Emit - Spectre Music Of An Antiquary [Glorious North Productions ý - 2012]

It’s been some six or seven years since this Uk based avant black metal, darkly experimental, and sinisterly atmospheric project last released anything new. Back in 2008/ 2009, I reviewed the two excellent collection of old material- Abortions (on Autumn Wind Productions) & The Dark Bleeding Gods (on GoatowaRex), and each of these releases showed the project brew-up a distinctive blend of free-form, lurching avant grade blacked metal, and quite damned wonkily cinematic. This new tape sees the project really pushing it’s sound even further away from blacked metal, towards a mix of slowed experimental dark rock, spiralling 'n' aged sinister synth drift, marching yet slurred synth hazed beat-scapes, and beyond.

Side A of the tape features seven tracks in all, and these last between just over the minute & half, to around the five minute mark. And the tracks are fairly varied  starting off with mid-paced experimental dark rock constructions, that are underfed by slurred electronic drum rhythms & distant sometime blackly croaked vocals. Moving onto much more drifting, creeping & unhinging sonic fare which goes from unease merges of slowing turning 80’ s horror film synth-scaping, onto rundown & wonky beat-scapes that are hazed by sinister synth trails, down to eerier mixers of field recordings & subtle electronic texturing.

Side B is taken up by a single “Emanations From Beneath Far Hills, Beyond Far Moons”, and this 12.13 track really follows on from the slow grim decline of the first side. It’s built around a  distant wavering & morbid drone scape, which is either built around filtered ‘n’ washed out synth textures, or blurred guitar texturing. Over this you get these weird selection of on/off textures- taking in stark echoing bangs, slight drags, and doomed slides; these  elements are kept to the minimum & help create this unsettling underground dungeon type feeling.

“Spectre Music Of An Antiquary” is most effective & bone chilling in the slow decline & stripping back of the tracks pace & layers as the tape goes on- much as if you are slipping deeper & deeper into some inescapable shadowy & off-kilter nightmare world.  It’s nice to see this most creative and distinctive act active once more, and this tape nicely progresses the projects sound from it’s past sonic endeavours.

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Roger Batty
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