Coming soon: Industrial/Noise

Review: Glistening, opiated soundbeds from Coil's Drew McDowall, aided by an orchestral ensemble arranged by Brent Arnold and comprised of cello, viola, violin, harp, and french horn. In constant fugue between electronics and threadbare, extended technique-laden orchestration, the album simmers and boils over in a constant cycle of stasis, catharsis and rebirth. The first half opens with the misty-eyed 'Out Of Strength Comes Sweetness', in which disorientating mechanical plucks float in and out of focus, before fully opening out into the grandiose 'And Lions will Sing with Joy', which shudders with dissonant clouds of strings before opening up into an elegiac harp improvisation. The second half is even more ambitious, with sour, suspended string drones lapsing into paranoid voices and contorted crescendos.