Mastered by Mastering Engineer Saif Bari
Check out the video for “Gravity Womb” below:
Otherr arrives on Mozyk.net with his brand new album, Floating Stones. He has expertly woven an intriguing sonic tale, captivating in it’s simplicity, yet of a depth that begs a return to it’s passages many times to discover all of the hidden chambers that are immediately concealed. A story designed to enchant and reward the avid listener with morsels of sonic lore that offers an in depth look into the world that Otherr has created.
Right from the onset of Suspended you know you are in for a lavish aural experience as you are greeted with warm enveloping synths and swirling vocal chants, almost dizzying, and reminiscent of a dark ritual. Continuing to build a beautiful tension until dropping into the more percussive driven Offering with it’s perfectly delayed intro, cyber-industrial beats and floating gated voice manipulations.
As the title track Floating Stones begins, it brings a particular EBM overtone, yet utilized in such way as to confer a feeling of “techno-tribalism”, and continuing on with the hyper-processed vocal chant aesthetic, which is quite prevalent throughout the entire release. Agnostic Swarm features some very unique sound design that warms you up for the industrial Amen drop that eventually rises out of the sea of voice stabs and pulsing bass. The journey continues to the little interlude of Light Switch, arp bass running away under chopped voices until reaching the more low end focused Sibyl.
Sibyl harkens back to an early/mid 90’s jungle vibe, gritty and raw, but processed in a modern package with a touch of 303 thrown in for good measure. A lovely precursor for Deimos, bringing the sound back to it’s sci-fi industrial roots; lovely spatial details meets and an almost haunted urban feeling that you can’t quite place. Gravity Womb introduces a more delicate side of Otherr; idm structures blurring with fragile melodies and cybernetic edits, yet still keeping a raw edge.
Rounding the final stretch, Disowned enters the airwaves with 3D textures and subtle moving spaces. Pushing the vibe deep into more IDM territory, the detailed sound design really shines through with pleasant attention to details and and immersive sound stage. Picking you up and dropping you off at Amen, the final stop. An emotional cool down to the intensity of the preceding experience, elegant washes of noise over peaceful pulses of bass and melody that almost makes you forget the dark and immersive experience you just went through to get to this point. Almost.
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Overall Comments:
Otherr has spared no detail in this deeply immersive, future tribal cyber-industrial opus. Floating Stones is an exploration of a peculiar sonic playground somewhere on a distant alien world. One constructed of very detailed sound design, rich and unusual processing meeting with driving, science fiction beats and lush cinematic textures to form an otherr-worldly mind melting aural excursion.