The album appeared in early summer 2018- and was released on Russian label Torga Amun, which is run by Vitaly Maklakov of Light Collapse. The darkly labelled CDR appears in a double-sided monochrome cover featuring a crude drawing of a demon coming from flame on its front cover, and the rest of the album artworks takes in fairly bleak photos of surgical masked figures & water on concrete surfaces.

The albums comes in at the fairly lengthy seventy seven-minute mark- with the tracks coming in between six & nearing eighteen-minute mark. Each of the tracks is an often dense & fairly dower trip into murky mood-scaping- that brings together simplistic dark ambient drift, often looped & rhythmically chugging sound elements & lo-fi beats- with shifting layers of subtle noise making.  The noise elements move from high pitched grain sears, onto textural snaps & pops, through to slightly buffering churns, and greyed hisses & purrs.

I came into this release after enjoying Light Collapse more wall- noise/ textured focused work- and I’m afraid to say Neure Alhimii did little or nothing for me. Firstly all the tracks seemed fairly similar hazed & bland in their harmonic makeup- meaning the tracks don’t really stand out from each other. Next, the beat elements & looped patterns seemed very dated & often clichéd, in both their make-up & execution. Lastly, the noise layers seem rather predictable & un-inventive, with at times these coming across like less rewarding Merzbow texturing from the Merzbeat period.

I guess going into this I was expecting more ‘wall’ or creative/ moody textured noise elements- so that disappointed me, but I did press on & played the album more than a handful of times, but I’m afraid with each new play it became more bland, unrewarding & one dimensional.

In conclusion, I’d say if you go into this expecting industrialized ambience with fairly stayed noise texturing & clichéd sample work you might get something from Neure Alhimii- but I’m afraid to say this release just wasn’t for me.