Virtue Wall: Faith is the second in the series of walled noise releases from noise / grim drone maker Flanders based noisemaker Damien De Coene, that are based around the capital Virtues- which were set by Pope Gregory I in AD 590.

The release is a digital download released by De Coene himself- it takes in a single twenty-eight-minute track. With the simple, yet effective enough cover art featuring a picture of praying hands coming from out of half-light/ dense shadow. The release can be found just here. 

The just shy of half-an-hour wall is based around a mixture of the following: lightly bucking ‘n’ juddering mid-range static repetition, constant static graining flow, and a few gritty pops ‘n’ snaps. Together these elements create a wall that is both starkly busy, yet densely weathered- with one getting images of early morning TV channel fuss, while outside beyond the decaying window frames a bitter and freezing rainstorm descends from the murky half-light skies.  De Coene nicely balances the elements in a compellingly moody manner, and while I’m personally not getting any wall tricks myself, the whole ‘wall’ is wonderfully atmospheric in its grimly hazed yet tautly meshed unfold.

As with anything with the De Coene name on, you're always guaranteed of carefully composed & bleakly moody wall/ drone noise matter. And Virtue Wall: Faith is another worthy example of this- let us hope when he’s finished releasing this series in a digital form, that some label decides to put this series out- as it really does deserve a psychical release!.