Jon Gaiser is out there on his own for unearthly electronic sculptures which really can’t be mistaken for anybody else. After a steady stream of often-startling twelves, remixes and collaborations a whole album can only be something special and his debut doesn’t disappoint. Forget minimal or any other term, this is electronic music, usually with a dance pulse but charting territory entirely of his own surrealistic landscaping. The ghostly wafting of ‘Volve’ sets the scene and establishes a mood which carries through the ensuing ‘Face Down’ and ‘Ground’: intricate, shadowy scorched-planet scenarios threaded with low-flying resonance, cavernous bass rumblings and alien bleep melodies.’Cilliate With’ ups the pressure with a formidable bassline, this harder plateau maintained through ‘Whether Or Not’ and the eerie ‘Substance B’. ‘Comma, Fade’ rides which could resemble a normal organ riff but doused in bells and sighs. So it goes on through the deeply resonant ‘Leave It’ and the album peak ‘Trunkated’ [also a single]. The drum programming and floor-shaking bass shows how Gaiser can unleash seismic ructions on a dancfloor too. After that the last three tracks implode into avant garde ambience and brilliantly-subtle beat manipulation. Undoubtedly one of the debut albums of the year.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs