lunes, 29 de junio de 2009

William Fowler Collins - Perdition Hill Radio


Link Removed By Request
Album on stream from Type, here
Genre: Drone, Dark Ambient
Label: Type Records

From the desolate hills of Albuquerque, New Mexico comes self-styled black ambient overlord William Fowler Collins. Brought up in New England and educated in San Francisco, the constant traveling has given his music a rare patience and focus and a distinct connection with the sprawling American landscape. Like Earth’s seminal ‘Hex’ before it, ‘Perdition Hill Radio’, his second full-length, invokes the ghosts of a lost America and drags the rotting carcass of country music through a swamp of noise and drone.

With a love of both experimental ambient music and ear-splitting black metal, Collins has arrived upon a grim hybrid of both. Black ambient might be the best description as this is neither one nor the other, inhabiting a lonely space in-between. The chugging, blown out treble and isolated darkness of Xasthur is all present and correct, but there are also echoes of William Basinski and Deaf Center hidden amongst the clouds of radio static. These rare cracks of beauty are what make ‘Perdition Hill Radio’ such an arresting listening experience, and what sets it apart from so much that has come before.

There is a shadowy link between the compositions of William Fowler Collins and fellow Type artists Svarte Greiner and Xela; all three share a similar fascination with the darker side of the ambient spectrum. Collins however manages to re-frame this darkness to suit the sun-baked mountain tops of New Mexico, and it’s all the bleaker for it. As crows circle an anonymous skeleton and brightly coloured lizards retreat into their dark corners, there could be no better soundtrack than this. Dark, doomy and with no escape from the pounding sun up above – ‘Perdition Hill Radio’ is a truly cinematic record.

4 comentarios:

Anónimo dijo...
Este comentario ha sido eliminado por un administrador del blog.
Toxinho dijo...

If someone wants to remove a link just ask for it. I don´t make this blog for money. I´m only sharing music that i like.
I don´t need to be insulted, if someone wants to speak can send me an email and we can discuss our ideas rationally.

Absolute Horror dijo...

glad you enjoy the album...
the label now streams it at their website for free:
http://typerecords.com/releases/perdition-hill-radio

Absolute Horror dijo...

Please remove the download link and replace it with the streaming link. Thank You.

http://typerecords.com/releases/perdition-hill-radio