Vacant Align — 51926

51926 is an example of eerie, atmospheric, and low-key industrial-toned walled noise from Wisconsin’s Vacant Align. This is a single forty-five-minute track release.

As with all of this projects releases thus far, this is a digital-only release. It’s put out by the project itself, and as with its other releases, it takes in a monochrome/ moodily abstract cover art- this is built around light, shadow, and a few grainy lines.

The Vacant Align project has been active since last year. I think I’ve played all, and reviewed a few of its releases- and I must say it’s one of the most interesting/ consistent projects in the wall noise scene at present. First off, there is clearly a lot of thought/ effort into each release's use of textures. Secondly, they steadily but surely put work out, and lastly, all the releases have a distinctive abstract/ low-key unsettling look.

The single/self-titled track hits dead on the forty-five-minute mark. It’s built around a simple yet effective blend of slightly murky trudging along rumble and gritty, grainy pop, snap, and comb. Vacant Align’s work always conjures up such keen imagery in my mind- for this ‘wall’ I’m visualising moving steadily along a rail track on an antiquated, steadily rattling coal carriage- around me is a barren & constant dusk set landscape, and I keep nervously scanning the landscape- just in case something suddenly romps out of it. It’s a taut, yet moody & eerily soothing ‘wall.

51926 is another excellent example of a moody/ very well-conceived wall from Vacant Align. And here’s looking forward to more work from the project down the line