Genre: Industrial / Ambient

A worthwhile entrant into the world of post-industrial is the proliferate Bardoseneticcube, who have released a number of rather diverse albums on several labels. They are not an act to restrict themselves to any particular style, a mindset they have carried through to this pleasingly diverse release.

The first track (they don’t appear to have wasted time with basic niceties such as song titles) contains some neo-classical bombast combined with ritualistic percussion and industrial dance effects. The following track steps down a notch to concentrate on a brooding atmosphere, and includes a guitar softly wailing way. The tribal percussion resurfaces later on in the album, in addition to a jazz saxophone performing a slightly sleazy melody. The same song also makes use of what sound suspiciously like the digitized chimes of an antique grandfather clock. The album ends with an ambient excursion – an apt closer for winding down what has been a rather eclectic excursion.

The amazing thing is not that they use all of the above, plus a whole lot more. Nor is it particularly noteworthy that they are able to get away with it. But what is truly amazing is that that it is all surprisingly coherent with not a single moment sounding out of place and consequently, is a welcome addition to any post-industrialist music shelf. Russia has already proved its worth in the field of pagan and black metal; now they are poised to make inroads into post industrial as well.