Sion Organ - Discord In Disorder
Released: May 6 With his first release since last year’s King Karma , UK-based Sion Orgon brings us a lurid assortment of sometime just surreal and sometimes nightmarish soundscapes. Each track sounds as though it has been clipped together from a thousand different sources small and indiscriminate pieces of sound woven together into a series of churns, gurgles, clicks, clacks, and other bits of racket. It’s all rather carefully patched together with enough seeming randomness to create extremely dynamic scenes. Along with the expected noises and atonality, there’s wide use of a number of extremely melodic elements in surprising places. In the latter half of song two, “Schism,” there’s bit of saxophone that comes in with a jazz-inflected melody that feels almost out of place until the heavily treated and manipulated nature of it comes to light. Then, it effectively raised the perceived tension, giving the track an air of jazz-influence while still leaning heavily into the horror ele...
