Petrichor - Ascend to the White Lodge
A UK act with several Bandcamp releases, and most of the physical releases are already sold out. Can´t find the act on Discogs either, since the act doesn´t have an entry on Discogs. So, if you want your physical release with this interesting act, then you might consider asking for it on several noise/industrial groups on various social media platforms.
This one was released back in June (2025) and was released as a jewel case CD-R, and as a special edition with everything in a handmade red bag. Other than that, I can inform the reader that the release functions as a tribute to David Lynch. Specifically, Twin Peaks offcourse. With all the emotions to be witnessed in this excellent supernatural thriller series, the artist tries to channel these kinds of emotions into this full-length album. Over 1 hour long.
The first track is called The Red Room. And the Red Room is, well, the Red Room with the cool-looking white and black floor. And offcourse, with people talking backwards, with a cool-looking midget who has some pretty nifty dance moves. A strange and heavily distorted voice mumbling, with a quiet sound of feedback. Some extra glitchy noise from a radio, chopped up high-frequency noise, and a bar of metal being hit by a piece of metal. A long, ritualistic industrial-noise piece with eerie moods. Not chaotic, but made with a focused eye and ear! Lots of stuff and weird sounds are going on; open your ears and you might notice them.
The second track, Pain & Suffering. The sound of an old warped vinyl playing backwards, and then some kind of living metal-machine creates a looped rhythm. Harsh and spacy noise touches are added, while screeching souls are trying to break into our world. The noise becomes very surreal, and there are a lot of recorded sound elements that are trying to hypnotise the listener (Or disorientate!). More recorded sounds of scrapped metal within!
The third track is called Meanwhile. A wavy sound of waves, watery waves or... the sound of 100 sheets getting dried in stormy weather? .. I am not sure. The sound of sheets getting "alive" in Mr James´s Oh Whistle...? Sound of creaking wet wood and wind, like being inside a boat with a wild weather going on outside. I'm really getting into those menacing evil forces of Twin Peaks here, something being outside... that WANTS to get inside...somehow.
The fourth track, Where I´m From the Birds Sing a Pretty Song. Fasr and chopped up high frequencies, and organic-sounding walls of noise move around my room (or speakers). There are some kind of spiritual traces to be heard and sensed through the thick layers of primitive ambient noise here.
Once We Cross, it Could All Be Different is the fifth track. A spacy journey into.. cosmic noise and archaic horror? Huge things moving under the earth, a scratching saw-buzz... and the imagination of how the essence of evil can hide in the smallest things imaginable. Microscobic demons?
Ascend to the White Lodge is a breathing, organic, and living thing made purely out of harsh sounds. It feels very personal and intimate, it will get under your skin... one way or another. And it´s different, not fitting into a specific category as such. Hard to compare to anything, it´s that unique. Working as an excellent tribute to both David Lynch and Twin Peaks.
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