Having previously recorded under the moniker The Subliminal Kid, a reference to William Burroughs’ ‘Naked Lunch,’ Peder Mannerfelt probably knows a thing or two about tape and text manipulations, cut-ups and the (theoretical) power of certain frequencies and their capacity to annihilate the human organism. Rcording now under his own name, ‘Lines Describing Circles’ find some of those theories being put into practice.
Those buzzing synth loops have serrated edges, and slowly drill in to your brain. The album shifts between tracks, segued and sequential; it’s not designed to be skipped or randomised. Endless pulsating drones, muffled beats and gnawing noodles scratch away at the senses, flicker and batter against the eardrums and inflame the aural receptors. Short phrases and single words are looped and echoed – ‘Evening Redness in the West’ involves the repetition of the word ‘barren’ over a scraping feedback, low hum and static fizz. It goes on until all meaning is lost and the word sounds like ‘blood’.
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In between the occasional softer moments, the tones are spiky, abrasive and uncomfortable. The lines may or may not describe circles, but they do contrive to detail an audio work that’s challenging but rewarding.
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