Lack / The West Retaining Wall

by AICHER

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	1.	Lack 05:00		buy track
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Downwards Records [ DNLA-D01 ]
Boomkat MMXXIII

Boris Wilsdorf — Studio
Russell Haswell — Mastering

"EROS & MY DISCO’s active ingredient Liam Andrews forges his solo path in industrial musics with a striking debut of panel-beat percussion and amorphous gloom for his patrons at Downwards.

Fresh from recent years’ acclaimed recordings with Boris Wilsdorf (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Karl O’Connor (Regis/CUB) as EROS, duties in his long-standing, Naarm-based band MY DISCO, and dark ambient side-project Ferenc Dezső; Andrews mints the Aicher project as a stark reflection of time immured in a near-0º Copenhagen, channelling its Baltic Sea breeze bite and ascetic brutality in two bits of seasick percussive roil and jagged metallic sound sculpture certain to gnaw nerves of Downwards diehards.

Both parts betray Andrews input on the warehouse-like reverberations of Eros and recent MY DISCO exploits, with ‘Lack’ presenting what feels like a warehouse by the docks slowly submerging into icy waters, riders collapsing around one’s head while a chamber string quartet stubbornly play out its demise, leaving us exposed to ‘The West Retaining Wall’ where the string and buckling structure resemble The Haxan Cloak’s horror sound design or indeed the enduring influence of his sometime spar, Boris Wilsdorf’s work for Einstürzende Neubauten at the legendary Studio Baustelle in Berlin - understandable as Boris recorded and mixed the piece with particular attention to its subharmonic frequencies and cracked tone, which is fixed in space by Russell Haswell’s biting-point mastering."

— Boomkat

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released April 5, 2023

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