Light Of Shipwreck - In The Empty Wreckage Of A Dream

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4...according to our Ant on Thu 08 Jan, 2009.

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to 'In The Empty Wreckage Of A Dream' yesterday. It's the work of Light Of Shipwreck which is the alias of Ben Fleury who creates a dark and creepy sound world with electric and bass guitars, lapsteel, voices, percussion and programming. A one man industro-doom-noise band if ever there was one. Both Brian and I particularly like the pulse of the drum machine rhythms on here. They keep the tracks moving while all manner of drones, noise and spooky atmospherics work their way into your cerebral cortex. Super dark material on Gears Of Sand. Ltd edition of 100 copies.

Gears of Sand Recordings is proud to mark it's 50th release,
the absolutely caustic and engrossing new
album from Light of Shipwreck. As the first full length since the
highly acclaimed "From the Idle Cylinders"--released on the Crucial
Bliss imprint in 2007-- "In the Empty Wreckage of a Dream" is one
massive composition organized into two separate parts clocking in at
nearly 50 minutes of mind blowing, atmospherics. Part 1 has all the
patented LoS drum explosions and heavily layered guitar blasts and
drones; only this time it's all far more ominous.

Severed black metal riffs are transmuted into caterwauling motifs that
ebb and flow across the stereo field literally throwing the listener
into an all consuming immersion. You must take the journey into this
foreboding dream, you must listen to what comes next - only then will
you understand ...

This disc is like Nadja meets Angel Blood meets Abruptum meets, even,
Dead Can Dance - the entire work pulls the dark drone genre from its
roots like a great red wood and throws into a towering ritual blaze.
Part 2 is what emerges from the ashes - a rite of passage into
something completely inexplicable: the emergence from the dream begins
with psycho off beat fibrillations that juxtaposes a haunting and
strange howl of a riff with dark growls - a inexplicable
transformation - Light of Shipwreck forges its own course and this
time it is an altogether huge, sprawling canvass of razor focused din
and dirge....

The packaging is a traditional jewel case, shrink wrapped, laser on
disc graphics w/ black cave scrawling aesthetics by the artist.