MAGGOTAPPLEWONDERLAND
Shards of Subtle Being
© 2008 MAGGOTAPPLEWONDERLAND (842841021765)
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The definitive audio companion for lost souls and troubled minds.
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notes
As it's title indicates, "Shards of Subtle Being" is about an uneasy sense of urgency, namely the shape of things to come and the direction our world is headed.
Largely abandoning their debut's abstract, creep-rock aesthetic, MAGGOTAPPLEWONDERLAND have instead focused their efforts on a cohesive epic of degenerate noise and ghostly melodies tucked inside call and response arrangements between the living and the dead.
The dramatic arc of these songs are built around the way instruments lurch into place while encrypted field recordings manage to deliver the meaning behind the album.
Each song cleverly dovetails into something altogether dramatic and physical, drawing the listener in; all the while painting a dismal mural of jagged sounds and graveyard lullabyes.
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This is what CD Baby had to say about our first release
author: CD Baby Staff"Here's an album that lives up to its title. Managing to be both sharply beautiful and darkly sinister, this collage of ambient, experimental metal is challenging in all the right ways. The incorporation of electronic sounds into a surreal semi-metal environment is nothing new, but these guys take it a step further, slipping in theremin vibes and strange programming and sampling elements that peel the skin back even further. Considering that there are six musicians involved in the playing, it's slightly surprising to hear a resulting sound that ethereal but complete, full but not too busy. You could call this ambient noise, but I'm not sure if that's giving it enough credit. This is an album you can listen to with headphones on and catch a ton of subtleties that you may have missed through your standard sound system. Fans of Mr. Bungle, John Zorn, and abstract experimental music will have no trouble diving headfirst into this one."
Music from the edge of the abyss
author: Courtesy of Darren Bergstein, e/i Magazine > AUDIO VERITÉ"...working well outside classic EM boundaries where electric bass guitars and electric baritone guitars speak their minds as expressively as their electronic counterparts. “Terminal Unfolding” features synths folded and creased into the oft-menacing architecture fomented by A. Jones and R. Shapton’s string-driven thingies, signatures recognizable but harried on by the pulsing circuitries surrounding them. “A Fragile Truce” commences with some tentative synth sprinkles from Peck, but the guitarists’ quick response, teasing electricity, plangent chords shapeshifting and intensifying the atmosphere, reveals an industrial-strength stew of a stripe seldom devised by post-Berlin School alum. Vivid and cinematic, with a sense of reckless endangerment situating the music right at the abyssal edge."