“Penta Volta”, Marius Chwalek’s debut long-burner, comes on cold & clinical, a sparse, minimalist ambient glitch-meets-drone patchwork of rich timbres punctuated and obscured ever more by trebly, noisy skitter & syncopated digital scruff as the album progresses, its layers beginning to pile a bit, the beats concentrating and thwacking more aggressively, the kick vacillating between accent and attack, the bass reaching deeper and deeper into the room. Through all this, a frenetic warmth is generated, and it feels nice against the all pervasive metallic noise swaddling.
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—Jacob An Kittenplan
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