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The Empire Will Fall

by Atriplex

6 tracks

69:36

1	Beecroft	7:42
2	Budding	14:14
3	Dog Wander	6:35
4	Exhibition	9:58
5	Lifespan	22:29
6	Cooldown	8:38

Album description

The second in a pair of albums exploring ambient electronic manipulation of guitar drone.

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Electronic ambient

09/01/08

This is an album of electronic noise/ambient and the sound itself is quite interesting and impressively complex. locrian does have a point in that there isn't a great deal of musical substance (more earlier in the album than later), but I still found it to be interesting background listening.

Ivan1984

Awesome

03/02/10

Beecroft has a sense of some potentially overwhelming technology, pulsating in waves of presence. With the second track there is a higher pitch, it lacks the suggestion of a comfortable existence. It seems to open out more. Dog Wander brings the dynamic closer to heel. Then, Exhibition opens up again. Displaying the array of imaginative faculties. Seemingly there is more cohesion. Again, like the inhalation and exhalation of the cosmos, Lifespan stretches itself, it certainly has the span and there is subtle evidence of life. The final track, Cooldown, rounds things of perfectly. There is something to be said for putting this in the foreground and becoming immersed in the flow of sounds.

locrian

Over Drone

18/03/07

I found most of this album unengaging and uninteresting, the exception being the last two tracks, Lifespan and Cooldown. The problem is not that I found the first four tracks to be poor quality - instead, I simply have nothing to say about them at all. I feel they lacked the kind of ingenuity they needed. This is always the danger in minimalist music - you have to pare it down without removing what makes it worth listening to.

I did find Lifespan compelling, as it created a real presence and a sense of foreboding, and I feel Cooldown also had a message. The quality of these two certainly gives me a lot of faith in the band's capability, and I will definitely try other works of theirs.