Dogs Versus Shadows & Nicholas Langley - 16mm
Released: April 3 In their follow up to their 2024 album, Dogs Versus Shadows & Nicholas Langley return with 16mm , on again exploring their very particular blend of musical influence that veers in musique concrete, drone, and generally strange soundscapes. Over the course of 19 tracks, we are re-introduced to the drifting, mildly chaotic, and sometimes unexpectedly rhythmic composition style of these two artists melding their equally oddball methods together. The album begins on a quiet and rather ambient note with “A Rogue Golden Arch,” which generally remans soft and atmospheric but with an undercurrent of grinding noise that slowly seethes beneath the surface. While it opens things up, it doesn’t define the sound of the album at all. The ambient noise vibes are quickly supplanted later on with “This Loop Kills Fascists,” a grainy lo-fi sample exploration that has a vaguely rhythmic quality among its distorted voices and noises. Between these two points is where the bulk of...
