DAFAKE - Suture
Released: May 28 With some noise albums, slow and subtle is not necessarily the order of the day. But the latest from DAFAKE is built entirely of slow and seething subtlety down to the most minute fragments of sound. It’s quite interesting that this is the theme considering it is entirely composed through live improvisation in a no-input setup. The setup isn’t one hundred percent clear but it certainly sounds like something on the more minimal side of things, squeezing as many sounds and textures out of a couple of pieces as possible to great effect. The album is decided dark in tone with the improvisational notes shining through nicely with sporadic rhythmic structures popping up intermittently. “Stitch VI” is by far the most rhythmically driven of all the pieces in this collection featuring a surprisingly deep bass tone throughout its short runtime. It thumps and wobbles in close time with the higher pieces and provides a particularly well-balanced counterweight against the scre...
