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It sounds like they're trying to fight off the swarms of artificial noise with their bare hands, like on "Nolan," which strips down before its skeleton is overrun by synths that wrap around the drums like barbed wire.

Five years after its release it still stands almost entirely alone, incomparable and unparalleled, a rare feat indeed.

This album to me is probably the only album I find 'unlistenable', and i don't mean 'unlistenable' in the sense that the themes are so awful and hateful you have to turn it off (the good way), I mean that some of the production literally causes pain to my ears. Unlike his past work, there are no guitars, piano, or stringed instruments; instead, the 41-minute collection focuses on synthesizers and the heavy percussion of ex-Liturgy drummer and current Guardian Alien leader Greg Fox and Swans’ Thorr Harris. That usually happens to me about two-thirds of the way through this album (on the relatively-dull "Sola Fide"). In an interview with Pitchfork, he said the scientist would be his dream collaborator: “It would be about getting some face time with the guy who literally synthesized life—he made life. For all this, his music is equally fascinating when you strip away the context and simply let the sounds he’s making overtake you.

Electronic music doesn't get much heavier than "Secant," which heaves à la Southern sludge metal, snarling and buzzing as it pulls apart fragments of piano. Maybe not quite as oppressive as By The Throat, but still an incredible experience of distortion filled experimenting. The album received acclaim from music critics and was listed by many publications as one of the best albums of the year.

On “Secant,” one of the best tracks of the bunch, Frost delves into a pulsing, hissing form of industrial that’s only a few shades more abstract than any of the highlights from The Downward Spiral.

As such, the album feels more industrial than ambient, but driven by the awesome machines of nature rather than those built by man. Some tiny lack of a consistent theme and generally repetitious sonic structures of rise and rise and fall in each piece just made it seem slightly stale, and it felt more like a collection of a few very excellent singles rather than a complete record, but when this does come together and really strike out it’s absolutely incredible, future nostalgia done without being gauzy and soppy.For the remaining four and a half minutes, these strands fluctuate, growing more intense, but also more refined.

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