28-01-2010, 05:31
BJ Nilsen - Gravity Station from The Invisible City [Touch, 2010]
Quote:...all the central elements of contemporary electronic drone are here: a sustained and hypnotically shifting backbone, subterranean throbs, and a fluttering array of non-musical sounds dancing around it all. However, BJ is in a league by himself in regards to meticulousness, exactitude, and discipline. There is no clutter or bloat here, no laziness, and no attempt to use density to create an illusion of power and depth. Instead, Nilsen very starkly and crisply conveys exactly what he needs to and no more. In lesser hands, that degree of calculation and artifice would probably result in a bloodless and clinical-sounding album. Actually, I suppose it is not completely unreasonable to describe this album as âclinical,â but it would be totally missing the point. The Invisible City is a deliberately cold, lonely, and futuristic-sounding album. ...- brainwashed