"Shiroishi enters with a rapid-fire series of chromatic high notes, all texture and tension, highlighting the rising tide of distress. Shiroishi's sax increases with the number of voices, his frantic lines replicating, doubling and piling on top of each other via loops and delay, a method that avoids the cookie-cutter neatness of overdubs. The voices continue, but in the background, as if over a distant loudspeaker."
"This tone vaults us into the next track, a quiet, brooding meditation that moves in slow exhalations. Shiroishi changes his atonal hummingbird attack of the album's first few minutes for a simple four-note melody that moves with a soothing regularity. Bolstered by guitar feedback and echoey tremolo from Turner and Gemma Thompson (Savages), "Mountains that take wing" has an immense tenderness that only increases as the guitars grow stickier and more commanding."
Forgetting Is Violent opens with overlapping Japanese voices that form an urgent, insistent chorus around the line "To protect our family names." Rapid-fire chromatic saxophone notes introduce texture and tension while loops and delays replicate and layer frantic lines, keeping voices distant like a loudspeaker. A menacing guitar rumble from Aaron Turner expands and then yields a gentle sustained tone emerging from chaos. The next track slows into a brooding meditation with a simple four-note melody, bolstered by feedback and tremolo, blending controlled feral noise with tenderness and juxtaposing heaviness with delicate gestures to create a complex sonic narrative.
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