Duncan Ritchie discusses his latest Cryo Chamber effort, Alive With Scars. He speaks about some of his field recording techniques, the album’s artwork, and how living with Multiple Sclerosis has ultimately served as a touchstone of influence for all of his compositions, old and new.
Elegiac are Emily Highfield’s compositions as she effortlessly floats from warm guitar passages to forlorn bogs of blackened malice. Amidst her transitional wafts, she often caresses listeners with witch-like whispers. And in flashes of ember-tinged light, she glides upward, transcending her auditory structures into feverishly blissful twinkles of awe.
From his auditory experiments, a keen sense of candidness percolates. And amidst what sounds like unbridled chaos and static froth curdling on the surface, the baritone drones undulating underfoot lull you into a trance-like state.
An album review podcast of the latest releases from Starvation (5 Track Demo), Flowers for Bodysnatchers (Alive with Scars Prologue), and Potmos Hetoimos (Vox Medusae).
An album review podcast of the latest records from Cosmotheoros (At Eternity’s Gate), Antigama (Depressant), and Malicious Wonderland (Pessimism).
