Newest-Age Wielders of all Darker Crystals, BEWARE!
Mike Nigro & Andrew Osterhoudt have fashioned here an uneasy-yet-universal cosmic montage of self-erasing constellations, ouroboorish celestial tropes-gone-rogue, and one-way-expansive blueprints that ought fit within the catalogue of some otherworldly, parallel label titled “Black Hearts of Space”, were they not delivered right here, via CTatsu.
A thinly veiled underbelly of forlorn paranoia glowing from the ungazeable navel, these oft-co-opted New Age scripts have been artisinally poisoned juuust enough to feel both beautiful and toooo beautiful to be true, their hues oversaturated along the shadowlines, a neon cobweb spinning itself in fractal dissonance, just above the highlight.
Any attempted Channeling* of energies alongside these all-synth soundscapes might invite stories of most blissful peaks e’r visited (where travelers froze themselves to death in acrophobic dread), or conversely, a second-wind-given some (comatose) diver as they come up for air (after being clinically dead for an hour).
Disorienting, spooky, gorgeous; this tape is an emotional tour of acute schizophrenia, with subtle mood swings swirling throughout its entirety, despite (and in fact bolstered by!) an otherwise 95% state of consonant docility.
Quite an adventure. Best with headphones and a comfy floor to lay immobile on. For hours afterward.
*AO’s alias.
www.ctatsu.com/portfolio/latitudes/
and/or
https://mikenigro.bandcamp.com/
https://channeling.bandcamp.com/
--Jacob An Kittenplan
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