Review: Songs makes it sound like Swayzak has gone farther down the melancholic route than was imagined to be possible. "Solemn Park Days" is based on an introspective groove, its cavernous rhythms and spiky metal riffs making way for a synth line that's more haunting than a trip down the Mariana Trench. The title track is slightly more upbeat, although it's not a word that should be used in Swayzak's presence. Over a breathy, dubby groove, it evolves deliberately and gradually, its subtle claps and fractured hats providing the basis for drones and sonic gulps of breath. It's rare for techno to be this disconnected from the real world.
Review: There are so many producers making bleak, industrial techno, and so few who can tease their machines to create something more soulful and lasting. Attanasio certainly has that magic touch, and the inspirationally named "A1 Dub" unfolds to the sound of chiming, billowing chords and sprays of metallic percussion over a pulsing, dubby groove. It acts as a somewhat sedate prelude to " X-501 8"; there, the rhythm is heavier and more stepping and the hissing percussion is scattered across a reverberating riff that can only be described as cavernous. Yet here too, there's traces of Attanasio's soulful approach, as seductive piano lines shimmy through the arrangement.
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