Sleep Column — Don't Trust Anyone Around You, Promises Are A Form

Don't Trust Anyone Around You, Promises Are A Form Of Lies is a two-track release from the highly prolific and often texturally creative Russian walled noise project Sleep Column. Each track slides in near the half an hour mark, and each highlights the project's talent/ear for great & inventive noise texturing.

The release is a digital album which appears on Poland’s Gates Of Hypnos- with the cover artwork being of a blue and black coloured picture of a strange and bedraggled figure clutching its hands. The release can be found just here. 

So first out of the bag, we have “Don’t Trust Anyone Around You”. Here we find a mixture of murky and muddy dredging drone, sluggish judder 'n' snap, and subtle rattling static. The drone nicely pours into your ears like very slowly drying cerement, as the other elements nicely create both a feeling of depth and dimension to the wall. At times it feels as if the stretch ‘n’ judder sounds are slowing and breaking down, at others like it’s seemingly growing into the other elements- but I don’t believe either of these are true and in reality- with this being a relatively set ‘wall’. The mixture of slow setting drone weight, and drained-out knock ‘n’ snap works splendidly well- with a  most compelling ‘wall’, which rewards repeat plays.

Lastly of course have “Promises Are A Form Of Lies”. This time we’re presented with a muffled/ buried-in-a-box bass grind, which is surrounded by slightly skittering static judders, and thinner-grained skips ‘n’ snaps. To me, this track really feels like you are inside a slowly but surely drilling into the ground/earth's crust craft- one of those with a  huge ripping earth tip. The whole thing has a great feeling of both airless tension and skittering detailed texturing about it- with the ‘wall’ being so damn weighty and crushing in its intent. Again, there are nice subtitles and sub-tone at play, which may or may not be really there.

It certainly is great to see Sleep Column still creating such well-made and rewarding walled noise work after all this time. So, if you’re a sucker for densely packed, and reward detail, then this will be something you’ll be needing to get hold of