AD Ozium - In the Style of Dead Sparrows
Released: June 9 In the Style of Dead Sparrows is an album that feels, for lack of a better word, sketchy. It has this dark and winding quality to it that leaves a shade of audible grime on everything. The variety in story tones is pretty incredible throughout as well, sometime sounding deep and distorted and other time having a surprising twangy quality to it, all of which interplays uncomfortably with the assorted noise and drone loops that surround it. There also a willingness to make things sound pained and crunchy which can first bearded about halfway through the first track, “Lifespring.” There’s a moment in which pressurized noise begins to hit so hard through the entire track that it crushes everything together in its orbit, making the composition pump intensely and almost overwhelmingly. It’s a rather captivating moment that fades away back into the melange of noises. Some of the tracks take this noisy and crunchy aesthetic to an extreme, like “Whore of ...
