Scarlet Locusts Of These Columns CD

Over the last decade, Jim Mroz AKA Lussuria has offered up a steady stream of albums that offer a distinctly opaque and otherwordly fusion of dark ambient, drone and electronic experimentation. "Scarlet Locusts of These Forests" is arguably amongst the best of them. It initially appeared in 2015 as a four-tape box set and here gets a release on CD for the very first time. It's wonderfully creepy, unsettling and mood enhancing in equal measure, with Mroz subtly shifting emphasis between aural dystopia and melodic enlightenment. One minute, you're listening to delay-drenched harp loops and creaking doors ("With Bated Breath (Bird In Hand)"), the next blissful ambient ("Frozen Charlotte (Scarlet Temper)"), Radio Workshop-esque analogue tones ("Blue Iris") or echoing dub techno style drones ("The Vanity Greater Than Misery").