aidan blue : dreams of falling by Antenna Non Grata
Last release of 2025 from Antenna Non Grata - something that won't make the rewind of the year 2025 but definitely should. Seven tracks of electronic electroacoustic manipulations, frequencies, musique concrete tactics and all sorts of modulations on this album make an interesting and nuanced narrative of different elements that implodes and explodes again and again with how the artist uses his own voice and different electronic alterations of it as well as all other elements. It's an epic trail of haunting ambience - sometimes deep and forcing you to deep listening as the little details here rather than an accumulation of elements works as the main tactic. Sometimes highly dramatic and using the narrative to drive it towards piercing grotesque. Never out of touch or dull it gets pretty visceral in the ''palilalia" which is based on Don Paterson’s poem "The Scale of Intensity". An unusually well-composed album which you might place in modern compositi...
