Anaru - Silent Hunter
We have had the pleasure of Anaru a couple of times on Kalteldur, and it is always a great pleasure to do again. If you don´t know Anaru, then I can reveal to you that it is a Lithuania-based industrial solo project which started around 2017. Sort of surreal experimental technoid act with a nod or two to the early cultural cyberpunk-aesthetics (William Gibson to Japanese toons like Akira etc...) This time we have something in a classic CD format, an album with 9 tracks and is almost 40 minutes in length.
First track is called Atėjo laikas Galaktiką ginti peiliu! (translated Its Time To Defend The Galaxy With A Knife!). A rumbling, noisy and rhythmic industrial piece with a lovely doom-laden synth-melody in the background. Love the weird noises/sounds here, lots of interesting loops, and eerie stuff going on. The sound is kind of high-tech and primitive at the same time, in other words... lovely balanced between the chaotic and the structured.
The second track Alkokareivio-samurajaus Ataka (Attack of the Alokaarii samurai Border) works with futuristic sounds meeting up with sounds from the second world war! City-alarms going on, sinister-sounding knife-japing synth-keys, ritualistic undertones, warped radio noises etc. Sounds very chaotic, but it is very well structured if you ask me. A lot of ideas being mixed up here, but it works so far.
The Third track Ritual Schizophrenia Campaign (Takes time to enter the original track title) moves closer to a kind of Deutsch Nepal sound. An interesting sample is taken from some film-noir hardboiled Detective flick and gets mixed into cool technoid rhythmic eerieness. Love the vibrating metallic sounds going on, kind of a David Lynch/Twin Peaks sort of a wibe going on here aswell.
The Fourth track Infinite Despair Factory Staff might just be my favorite track on the album. Fans of early Autechre anyone?. Interesting and messy robotic rhythms clashes and bangs while a slightly melancholic and hypnotic toy piano (and a haunting synth tune) goes in the background. It´s fxxxxxx great, heard it a couple of times now!.
The Fifth track Blood Citadel Intermission is a lovely and futuristic ambient-techno track. High to the ceiling while giving a good opportunity to the listener to reach a certain aesthetic of delight.
The sixth track Prophets of a technocratic future offers metallic clashes and haunting melodies. Kind of takes me back to some of the eerie technoid pieces which you could hear on Cold Meat Industry´s The Karmanik Collection!.
The rest of the album (3 other tracks) is for the listener to explore! And they are worth exploring. Silent Hunter is a grim and merciless journey into a dark and cold future, where everything and everyone is ruled by a technocratic elite. You can already see it now as it is happening. A post C19 society with Iphones all-around, no contact with anyone just in contact with the information from your iPhone (which is controlling you!). Just me rambling offcourse, but do yourself a favor and check this album out!. Also out on a limited CD release ( SeeBlack Ring Ritual Records Bandcamp link below ).
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