Enfer Boreal - Break The Illusion

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4...according to our Brett on Wed 17 Mar, 2010.

The title track here's the biggun. It's some sort of twenty-five minute hypnogogic synth 'n' didgeridoo odyssey that builds slow, gets to a point of greater intensity, falls away into a dreamy kosmische feel and ends with subtly cascading bass throbs. Dave has mentioned the Lou Diamond Phillips classic Renegades and I'm pondering a highly experimental cut of Walkabout that only exists, half-remembered, in some dark recess of Nicolas Roeg's mind. Bookending that journey are two shorter pieces, the first a slightly cosmic Oneohtrix-esque synth tone workout and the second evoking a more hazily vague sort of vaporous infinity. I prefer orange juice with bits and I think a lot of this is kind of drone with bits.

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New disc from Maxime Primault who has been making music under the Enfer Boreal name for a few years now and has a nice little discography with releases on labels such as Digitalis, Tape Drift, 267 Lattajjaa and Stunned Records. This three track disc is bookended by two shorter pieces, with the epic middle track hitting in at 25 minutes. Opener 'Fingers Cut' blurs wildly psychedelic electric fusions with hazy feedback bliss outs. The epic title track follows which sounds like being underwater with neon lamps drowning beneath you with fantastic high riff-ery blazing throughout. 'Dusty Map' closes the disc with a whirring somewhat darker drone zone with almost industrial sound sparking away in the background, this dark industrial sound surpasses with a lulling guitar meditation and completes the album perfectly. Limited to 69 copies in parchment paper covers with new photography by myself.

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