Vacant Align — 62526

62526 is the latest release from this Wisconsin-based wall noise project. It’s a forty-five-minute wall which focuses on creating a wonderfully taut, constricting, yet atmospheric vibe.

This is a self-released digital affair, and as with all of Vacant Align releases, it features abstract monochrome art. This time around, it brought to mind a blend of a floating half skull & a drifting sheet- though, as I said, it’s abstract- so very much up to one's own interpretation.

The self-titled track hits dead on the forty-five-minute mark. The ‘wall’ is a very tautly wounded & tensely set affair- it brings together two/ three layers of steadily shifting ‘n’ shunting mid-ranged tone and gritting static jittering, with some hissing, churning, and clipped rumbling subtone detail. The whole thing feels like you tangled up in some odd shifting shape- the more you try to straggle/ define it, the more constricting & dizzying it becomes. So your brain can either fight it/ try to fully map it out, or just let it slice & slide around your sound space.

I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it again: Vacant Align is one of the more creative/ dissective projects in today's wall scene. And this new release really gets the grey matter churning and skimming in a most rewarding manner.