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Recommended by us on 28th October 2010
...according to our Ant on Thu 28 Oct, 2010.
Our man Brian makes his album label debut on Dead Pilot following an appearance on the Drone Poets CD a short while back... Oh shit! A few minutes in and black clouds are shifting towards me and sucking me up into a vortex. Man he's heading straight into the zone here, no messing. I gotta say this may well be the darkest I've heard Mr Grainger go, sans maybe some of the VCV stuff perhaps. Oh yeah I'm feeling this one, it even recalls some black metal soundscapes when some of those guys head into a more dark ambient mode. The textures become more metallic and feel a little more tangible then >>> Shit!!! A big blast of bass action lifts 'Empyrean Crown' entirely into new levels of goodness. 'Open Jaws Lined With Jagged Glass Teeth' slows down the intensity with a more reflective mood and again deep bass underpins sweeping howls and brain massaging tones. 'Diamond Tears On Slate' creates cavernous space with elements of isolationist ambient that recalls Thomas Koner's early works. Just as I'm blissing out, 'Roman Emerald Orgies' kicks my ass with some noisy distorted guitar sounds and then steadily plunges into blackened realms. Closer 'Pagan Horn' ends the set with murky cinematics. Recommended!
Brian Grainger aka Millieu has been making superb ambient/drone/idm for many years, mostly released on his own labels Millieu Music and Second Sun Recordings, but also on Attack Nine and Infraction. You may also remember him from such compilations as Drone Poets.
With "Diamond Tears on Slate", Brian channels a dark and bleak spirit in to his work. At times sounding like the distant chants of weird rituals from the occult, this mutated album of twisted drone is some of Brian's finest music to date. Heavily grained textures underlined with deep bass progressions are where we head first with opener "Empyrean Crown" whilst "Roman Emerald Orgies" starts with waves of reverberated guitar licks before descending into a blackened dirge; this album will drain you in the best possibly sense of the word.
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