VERFÜHRERVERGELTER - The Further Regions Of Sound
Released: March 5 This latest album from VERFÜHRERVERGELTER keeps well in line with his previous work in terms of the dark and industrial aesthetic. But there’s a lot more going on that just some weird industrial noises. Each track is strikingly unique here, never trying the same audible tricks as we move through compositions. There’s some really rather novel ones here as well, which stood out among the others. Of particular interest for me was the intense and rather cerebral “Nerve.” It feels some ultimately unsettling as we hear labored and wheeze-filled breathing alongside tense noise synths oscillating and warbling about wildly. But it’s really the breathing that solidifies the atmosphere. It’s so perfectly captured, feeling ragged and inject a tense feeling that is just incredibly visceral. Essentially every piece of this album is quite noisy and unnerving, except for the peculiarly calm first track “15mg of Shame. In the larger context of the album, it feels like...
