STYLE..... Industrial,
Dark Ambient, Krautrock
LABEL..... Ant-Zen
REL.DATE... Apr-16-2010
COUNTRY... Germany
Lowness is a one man project of
seattle's scott sturgis, a musician active since the
mid-nineties with projects like converter, dbs, notime and
pain station. although lowness exists since the end of 2005,
sturgis took the time needed to make the first lowness release
'undertow'. inspired by artists as disparate as chrome,
neu!, pink floyd, harmonia, black widow, subarachnoid space,
psychic ills, amon dⁿⁿl II and indian jewelry, this album
can be described as an ambient industrial psychedelic hybrid.
driving r-box beats, swirling synth dots, mighty, pulsing
subbasses and slicing guitar drones result in dark, hypnotic
rhythmic soundscapes with a nightmarish and in places exotic
feel. detailed post-rock instrumentation, subtle electronic
textures and often tribalistic grooves melt into one -of-a-kind
compositions created with strings and keys. lowness' direction
reflects an original take on familiar genre themes, but pushes
way beyond specific genre trappings by tossing aside the cliches
and commonality to focus on the raw emotion involved in creating
music. devastating and chilling at the same time, 'undertow' is
an album recommended for intense listening in the nighttime, just
before dawn....
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