Cat: AD 003. Rel: 27 Nov 23
Ambient/Drone
Side 1 - Track 1. Consumed |
Side 1 - Track 2. Excavation (part I) |
Side 1 - Track 3. Excavation (part II) |
Side 2 - Track 1. Mara |
Side 2 - Track 2. Miste |
Side 3 - Track 1. The Mirror Reflection (part I) |
Side 3 - Track 2. The Mirror Reflection (part II) |
Side 4 - Track 1. Dieu |
Side 4 - Track 2. The Drop |
Ten years on, Excavation has lost none of its power. It's a fitting time to reflect on the last The Haxan Cloak album as we prepare to digest the first new material from Bobby Krlic since, and a return into the complex folds of this album are more than enough to get us excited. Originally released on Tri Angle, now Krlic is putting the album out on his own Archaic Devices and putting paid to some of the astronomical second hand prices. Draped in finely textured, gauzy atmospherics and deathly rhythm pulses, this is a journey into the depths of imagination, where industrial, ambient and the avant-garde collide and test your mettle, but with its clear-sighted intentions it's also an album you can latch onto and continually draw more understanding from. A modern masterpiece, to be sure.