“Stagnation” is the first release in about a year from this Croatia based HNW project. And on offer here is a single forty five minute track of dense, suffocating and unrelenting Walled noise that’s constricting yet very moorish & entrancing.

The pro labelled CDR comes in a slim dvd case that features on the outside an close up black and white picture of what looks like a large piece of slate, with all it’s many textreal shapes & coarse layered maps of sedimentary detail- all very fitting for the grey yet detailed ‘wall’ of noise with-in.

The single self titled track on offer here is a very tense, tight and rapid mix of: rolling grey static drone, chugging ‘n’ hacking locked textural juddering, and repetitive crusty jittering ‘n’ tumbling textures. These elements are locked together into an airless, grey and tense wall of sound which both slowly numbs and entrances the listener over it’s forty five minute runtime.

So this is a very welcome return from this great Croatia project who presents here a very bleak & grey, yet addictive 'wall' of noise to slowly but surely get lost in. Lets hope he does'nt leave it so long before his next dose of sonic suffocation.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Roger Batty

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