M. Sage: The Receivers Peaking tape (Moon Glyph, 2012)

October 13, 2013 at 10:07 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

M. Sage: The Receivers Peaking tape

This one kind of flew under the radar, but I’m glad I caught it, because it’s pretty top-notch Tim Hecker-like slightly corroded drone. Dark and bruised, but always breathing and holding its head up. Scratched, swirling tones, but a constant bass pulse pushing things forward, even if it’s dragging its heels in mud. A few guitar riffs are used sparingly, sticking out like a weathered signpost pointing to a trace of civilization coming ahead while you’re walking through streets lined with abandoned buildings in an empty city. “Campaign Cycles / Harrowing Straits” opens with speech (probably Obama) distorted mostly beyond comprehensibility, except towards the end when he states that America is the greatest nation on earth. The rest of the track is clouded, slightly rusted drone with just a hint of light peaking through. “Ritual Ashes” is a short, ethereal piece with guitar notes being plucked in a field of insects humming. “The Apocraphyl Atlases” has guitar notes skipping like a dial tone, short circuiting and crackling away, with an excess of static for the second half of its 13 minutes. “An Angle Of Grain” is sort of a distant coda to this, with a little more of that skipping dial tone sound, but with a bit more of a blued, mellowed tone.

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